slrn & mutt - display problem

2005-09-22 Thread Gary
When I use slrn try to reply to a posting by email the entire window simply goes black. My mail_editor_command is "mutt -H '%s'", and I am using rxvt (in Cygwin). I know that mutt starts, and if I kill that process I get my slrn back again, though when I then quit slrn the terminal no longer echoes

Re: Funny hang with snapshop 20050920

2005-09-22 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:18:51PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: My favorite testcase (building OOo) started hanging again. ... But now the *really* strange part begins: You can break the hang by doing "ls /proc/3176/fd" !? and the build continues (until the next han

Re: Funny hang with snapshop 20050920

2005-09-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:18:51PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >My favorite testcase (building OOo) started hanging again. > >(Un?-)fortunately not on one of my systems and we also didn't manage >to reproduce with a reduced testcase. But the problem generally is: >In a tcsh shell (2980) start a

Re: calling cygwin executables from Windows

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Genkin
Eric - Thanks for the prompt response. Something is elusive here. I often come across this problem with really big files but never can reproduce it on small examples. If I ever get a grip on it, I'll let you know. However for now the 'cygdrive' path does the trick. Thanks again. Best - Alex -

gpg problems

2005-09-22 Thread nidhog
Hello again, I have encountered these problems on using gpg on cygwin: - when I try to decrypt an encrypted file, it automatically (i think) does a \n entry and so gpg says "wrong passphrase" so I have to enter the passphrase (which I haven't entered yet anyway) - when I try to symmetrically enc

how to choose apps to install

2005-09-22 Thread nidhog
Hi guys, What apps do I need to get in order to have these services on my cygwin: gcc compiler lynx browser rxvt I already have the basic cygwin installed and would just like to know what I have to add to gain the above functionalities. Thanks so much. -- /nh -- Unsubscribe info: http://

Re: calling cygwin executables from Windows

2005-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Alex Genkin on 9/22/2005 7:16 PM: > Hi, > I like to use gnu text utils like join or sort from Windows command ^^ The former GNU textutils package is now part of the GNU coreutils package. > prompt, not from Cug

calling cygwin executables from Windows

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Genkin
Hi, I like to use gnu text utils like join or sort from Windows command prompt, not from Cugwin bash. This mostly works fine unless you are trying to use a file tha is not in the current directory. Looks like those utils get confused about Windows paths. Is that right? Thanks Alexander Genk

Re: Anyone know about interaction of 'dd' with memory cards?

2005-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 9/22/2005 11:22 AM: > Now, dd is supposed to terminate the copy operation when it reaches EOF on > the input, and I doubt that is broken. What I'm wondering is, I _expected_ > that reading /dev/sdb would give an EOF when th

Re: fairly repeatable fork(?) errors in (contrived) test script

2005-09-22 Thread Tom Rodman
On Wed 9/21/05 11:44 EDT (cgf) cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:13:09AM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: > >All: > > > >I'm using the 9/19 snapshot. The sleep in the below test script seems to > >be required, otherwise the script could be simplified and still > >cause errors. Today I

Re: Someone was banging on my sshd despite NAT

2005-09-22 Thread René Berber
Henry S. Thompson wrote: > This evening I noticed my network load was sky-high even though I > wasn't doing anything. Turns out IP address 62.65.180.243 was banging > on port 22, causing a new sshd process every few seconds. Bizarre > thing is that the machine in question, running cygwin on top

Someone was banging on my sshd despite NAT

2005-09-22 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This evening I noticed my network load was sky-high even though I wasn't doing anything. Turns out IP address 62.65.180.243 was banging on port 22, causing a new sshd process every few seconds. Bizarre thing is that the machine in question, running c

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Joe Smith wrote: > Um... even though there is only one copy of cygwin1.dll on the system, my > background cygwin/s server causes problems every upgrade. It seems that > setup does succeed in replacing cygwin1.dll. Bash dies with the version > mismatch error. But as soon as I kill the x server, eve

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:47:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:36:38PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: "Big Action" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, o

RE: MKPASSWD on multi-domain systems

2005-09-22 Thread James.Bassett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:09 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MKPASSWD on multi-domain systems On Sep 20 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sep 20 09:35, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 1.5.18-1 Segfault on setup postinstall

2005-09-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:13:10PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Andrew Comport wrote: > >> I am still unable to install cygwin. As a summary: >> ( I have windows XP Sp2 up to date.) >> >> 1. I download the most recent version of setup.exe (now 2.510.2.2). >> 2. I execute using default install sett

Re: 1.5.18-1 Segfault on setup postinstall

2005-09-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew Comport wrote: > I am still unable to install cygwin. As a summary: > ( I have windows XP Sp2 up to date.) > > 1. I download the most recent version of setup.exe (now 2.510.2.2). > 2. I execute using default install settings. > 3. Setup.exe hangs at 98% "Installing /etc/postinstall/s00ash.

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:47:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:36:38PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: >>"Big Action" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, or should I download and >>>extract the entire "make install" tree? >> >>replace th

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:36:38PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: >"Big Action" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, or should I download and >>extract the entire "make install" tree? > >replace the cygwin1.dll I would recomend rebooting afterwards before >testing just t

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Big Action" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Corinna, Thanks for the quick reply! This should be fixed in recent developer snapshots, try the latest from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, or should I download and extra

Re: 1.5.18-1 Segfault on setup postinstall

2005-09-22 Thread Andrew Comport
Hello, I am still unable to install cygwin. As a summary: ( I have windows XP Sp2 up to date.) 1. I download the most recent version of setup.exe (now 2.510.2.2). 2. I execute using default install settings. 3. Setup.exe hangs at 98% "Installing /etc/postinstall/s00ash.sh" 4. I click cancel and

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Big Action
Hi Corinna, Thanks for the quick reply! This should be fixed in recent developer snapshots, try the latest from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, or should I download and extract the entire "make install" tree? Thanks, Nik -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: fstat gives wrong mode after chmod and fchmod

2005-09-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
is? > > Yes, I've tracked it down and have a patch in the loop. Stay tuned. Thanks, this is working now with the 20050922 snapshot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Anyone know about interaction of 'dd' with memory cards?

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Hi all, I've got a PC here with a memory card reader. I've been using 'dd' like so: dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=32768 of=cf.img to make image files from the contents of the disk. What didn't work, OTOH, was this: dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1024 of=cf.img I was hoping that when I left th

RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 22 September 2005 17:40 >> (Or you can omit the password and will be prompted to enter it at the >> keyboard). > > Actually, you can't omit it, you have to specify '*' as the password > (i.e., > > net use '\\server\share' '/U:DOMAIN\UserN

Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 22 09:40, Big Action wrote: > When I hit CTRL-C to end the current process (e.g. cat some_long_file), ALL > my other processes die with it, not just the current process I'm trying to > terminate. It's getting annoying, and I haven't been able to figure out > why this happens, or how to f

Re: MKPASSWD on multi-domain systems

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 20 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sep 20 09:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Greetings > >> I have been searching the mailing lists and googeling every thing in > > >> site but have not found exactly what I need. I saw in one post where > > >> mkpasswd had trouble when the PC was

Re: A new day, a new snapshot, more testing required on the road to 1.5.19

2005-09-22 Thread William Deegan
> I pulled the 0919, and 0920 snapshots and both don't run .bat files correctly. > > With the 0901 snapshot and with 1.5.18-1, when I run duh.bat (which > contains the following > and is attached), I see: > REM AHA > echo "AHAHAHA" > > With either the 0919, 0920 snapshot I see the following: > > du

CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.

2005-09-22 Thread Big Action
Hello, I'm having a problem with Cygwin that I've never had before on previous computers/installations. When I hit CTRL-C to end the current process (e.g. cat some_long_file), ALL my other processes die with it, not just the current process I'm trying to terminate. It's getting annoying, an

RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin

2005-09-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > Original Message > >From: Christian Buhtz > >Sent: 22 September 2005 16:54 > > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:49:02 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> ls -lart //server/share/subdir/ > > > > Great! It is so easy. > > > > But how can I access the samba if it is p

Re: scriptlanguage for a backupscript?

2005-09-22 Thread René Berber
Christian Buhtz wrote: > I want to write my own backupscript. > > - I will backup from some local harddrives to a NAS available as a > sambaserver. > - I will copy, write, delte files. > - I will check size of a file and a directory. > > Which scriptlanguage is the easiest for this? Take a loo

Re: scriptlanguage for a backupscript?

2005-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
> I want to write my own backupscript. > > - I will backup from some local harddrives to a NAS available as a > sambaserver. > - I will copy, write, delte files. > - I will check size of a file and a directory. > > Which scriptlanguage is the easiest for this? tar already provides /usr/sbin/bac

RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Christian Buhtz >Sent: 22 September 2005 16:54 > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:49:02 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> ls -lart //server/share/subdir/ > > Great! It is so easy. > > But how can I access the samba if it is passwordprotected? > > I could login with my windows exp

scriptlanguage for a backupscript?

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Buhtz
I want to write my own backupscript. - I will backup from some local harddrives to a NAS available as a sambaserver. - I will copy, write, delte files. - I will check size of a file and a directory. Which scriptlanguage is the easiest for this? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: use a NAS-drive in cygwin

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Buhtz
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:49:02 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > ls -lart //server/share/subdir/ Great! It is so easy. But how can I access the samba if it is passwordprotected? I could login with my windows explorer. But I do not want this way. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Christian Buhtz >Sent: 22 September 2005 15:27 > I work with Win98se. There is a NAS (available per FTP and Samba). > > I want to access/mount the NAS in the cygwin filesystem to use it as a > backup-destination. > > Is it possible? Yes. You can use standard U

use a NAS-drive in cygwin

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Buhtz
I work with Win98se. There is a NAS (available per FTP and Samba). I want to access/mount the NAS in the cygwin filesystem to use it as a backup-destination. Is it possible? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 22 15:14, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Probably not. You can use every file system which can be accessed by > >the underlying Windows also in Cygwin, but except for NTFS file systems, > >the permission handling of the underlying file system drivers (here: > >E

Re: Autotools\gcc: "Resource temporarily unavailable" problem

2005-09-22 Thread PSP Blizz
XPCOM is something used by FireFox it seems. I'll try to reboot and not use FireFox once. But I'm doubtfull it'll help the situation as XPCOM only hangs after cygwin has crashed with the "Resource" message. Also, it's impossible to start any new application which needs to access new unloaded DLLs.

Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Probably not. You can use every file system which can be accessed by the underlying Windows also in Cygwin, but except for NTFS file systems, the permission handling of the underlying file system drivers (here: Ext2 IFS) is usually rudimentary at best. As for upper/lowe

RE: Autotools\gcc: "Resource temporarily unavailable" problem

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: PSP Blizz >Sent: 22 September 2005 10:19 > After this it's not possible to do much in either windows or in > cygwin. Also when trying to restart my computer after susch a crash, > windows has to kill "XPCOM Event viewer" to be able to shut down. Maybe it's whate

RE: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Olumide >Sent: 21 September 2005 21:06 > Olumide wrote: > >> I typed 'texdoc kpathsea' and the kpathsea Library (DVI document, 60 >> pages) popped up, but I still dont know what to do. > > I actually did the impossible and looked at the document (gasp ;) ). > Ther

Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Tony Richardson
Public Mailing Lists lists.cichon.com> writes: > I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. > This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called > Ext2 IFS for Windows. > > Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount > thi

Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 22 14:30, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Hi all, > > I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. > This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called > Ext2 IFS for Windows. > > Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to m

Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Hi all, I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called Ext2 IFS for Windows. Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin us

Re: OpenSSH_4.2p1 and scp

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 22 08:12, Robert Watkins wrote: > Noticed something odd with OpenSSH_4.2p1 and scp. > > I can ssh to a Sun box (using Sun_SSH_1.0.1) without difficulties; the > problem arises when I try a file transfer with scp. The transfer starts > okay but exits almost immediately: > > ... > debug1: En

OpenSSH_4.2p1 and scp

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Watkins
Noticed something odd with OpenSSH_4.2p1 and scp. I can ssh to a Sun box (using Sun_SSH_1.0.1) without difficulties; the problem arises when I try a file transfer with scp. The transfer starts okay but exits almost immediately: ... debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Sending command: s

RE: xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 22 September 2005 11:21 > Original Message >> From: Corinna Vinschen >> Sent: 22 September 2005 11:07 > >> On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: >>> Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only >>> included in

Re: xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 22 12:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > > Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only > > included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make cpp a > > separate package since gcc is a very large package ? >

RE: xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Corinna Vinschen >Sent: 22 September 2005 11:07 > On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: >> Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only >> included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make >> cpp a separate package

Re: xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only > included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make cpp a > separate package since gcc is a very large package ? > > I have already asked this in cygwin.xfree wit

Re: fstat gives wrong mode after chmod and fchmod

2005-09-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 21 20:31, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:22:56PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > I'm seeing this on the 20050916 but as far as I know it's not a > > regression. A new perl test (actually using an existing file opened > > for read access) turned this up

xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc

2005-09-22 Thread Karl-Olov Serrander
Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make cpp a separate package since gcc is a very large package ? I have already asked this in cygwin.xfree without any answers. Any comments ? Regards -- Karl-Olo

Re: a feathiable solution displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?

2005-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Bobber Cheng wrote: > Had anyone found a feathiable solution displaying Windows program on > Linux via ssh / X? If the answser is no, i beg X gurus to give me any > advice how to implement it. Wine and VNC are not my choice. An alternative to Terminal client or cytrix is rd

Autotools\gcc: "Resource temporarily unavailable" problem

2005-09-22 Thread PSP Blizz
Hi I've been trying for a month now to get the PSP toolchain to work under my windows installation. It always crashes out in a message "Resource temporarily unavailable". After this it's not possible to do much in either windows or in cygwin. Also when trying to restart my computer after susch a

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-22 Thread zzapper
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:03:30 +0100, wrote: Off-thread? Deleting undeletable Nul files There is a form of MSDOS DEL where you must enter the full path DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul or use delinvfile.exe (google for this utility) -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory

a feathiable solution displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?

2005-09-22 Thread Bobber Cheng
Hi All, I search the post(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00627.html) at cygwin mailing list. Had anyone found a feathiable solution displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X? If the answser is no, i beg X gurus to give me any advice how to implement it. Wine and VNC are not

Just size of directory & any contents

2005-09-22 Thread zzapper
Hi, I was still using WinEXP for this until recently # just display total size of current directory & contents in human readable du -sh . # same thing but exclude pdfs du -sh somedir --exclude '*.pdf' Any more tricks? -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/