RE: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:54 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current > Automake 1.9.2 ... > > Herb Martin wrote: > > > > Your au

Re: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: > > Your automake is too old. These are the recommended minimum version > requirements: > > > # autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 > > # ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.6 > > # automake (GNU automake) 1.9.2 > > Automake in CygWin seems to be quite old compared > to the current version -

RE: date function: daylight savings

2005-09-29 Thread Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR
I see, so the issue is whether "1 day" is defined as 24 hours or the same hour/minute/second on the previous day. And this would apply to things on the front end of the season like $ date -d "2001-04-01 -1 day" Sat Mar 31 00:00:00 PST 2001 $ date -d "2001-04-02 -2 day" Fri Mar 30 23:00:00

Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
In trying to configure/make DSpam on CygWin 1.5.18 (and failing) I was informed by the DSpam author: > Your automake is too old. These are the recommended minimum version requirements: > # autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 > # ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.6 > # automake (GNU automake) 1.9.2 Automake

Re: date function: how many days in october are there?

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR on 9/29/2005 9:41 PM: > I've noticed that the date function does something strange trying to access > October 31st in a statement like > > $ date -d "1970-10-01 +1 month -1 day" > as opposed to something like

date function: how many days in october are there?

2005-09-29 Thread Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR
I've noticed that the date function does something strange trying to access October 31st in a statement like $ date -d "1970-10-01 +1 month -1 day" as opposed to something like $ date -d "1970-11-01 -1 day" which (I think??) should be functionally equivalent. The actual results of the 2nd are

Re: A problem with the patch utility and windows paths.

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Rundle on 9/29/2005 8:27 AM: > Greetings, > > I've having a few issues with the patch utility. It is not working with > windows paths. I am using Windows XP and the latest cygwin patch. Any help > is appreciated. Attached is the c

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > POSIX requires renice, but so far, no one has contributed a > renice to coreutils. If I can ever get my employer to sign > my copyright disclaimer, that is one of the projects on my > todo list. Meanwhile, util-linux > (http://freshmea

RE: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

2005-09-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
A cvs pull of wxWindows configured and built fine here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:13 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: on the road to 1.5.1

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

2005-09-29 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
and passes all tests (2 tests had failed with 1.5.18). It detects and uses readdir_r (which wasn't exported in 1.5.18). I'm happy to see some new include files over what was in 1.5.18, and the removal of some redundant info files: $ perl snapfiles.pl cygwin-inst-20050929.tar.bz2 cygwin:

on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
The latest snapshot is chock full of developer goodness and needs to be tested. Both Corinna and I spent a lot of time trying to track down the reported fork() problems. We didn't fix them* but this snapshot contains better fork error reporting. This snapshot also contains a rewrite of cygwin's

Re: cygssl-0.9.7 and python

2005-09-29 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:41:54AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Jacek Pop?awski wrote: > > > You will notice error "unable to remap", everything is fixed after removing > > that file! > > This just means that you need to install rebase and run rebaseall from > an ash prompt. After putting back

Re: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
> >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? POSIX requires renice, but so far, no one has contributed a renice to coreutils. If I can ever get my employer to sign my copyright disclaimer, that is one of the projects o

RE: Tasking not implemented on this configuration

2005-09-29 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: >> 3. Unzip them in cygwin installed directory. Remember to keep >> the directory structure intact when Unzipping. In addition, >> select over all when prompted by WinZip. > > This sounds dangerous to me. Anh Vo wrote: > It is not all. What it does is to replace the Ada compiler > (GNAT)

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > Dave The quoting was screwed up (somewhere along the line) and I am not the original poster but was thanking him. I have n

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > Dave The quoting was screwed up (somewhere along the line) and I am not the original poster but was thanking him. I have n

Re: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread J. David Boyd
"Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

Tasking not implemented on this configuration

2005-09-29 Thread Anh Vo
>>> "Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/29/2005 7:56:52 AM >>> << Anh Vo wrote: > If you need both Ada compiler with run-time support and cygwin, do > the following. ... > 3. Unzip them in cygwin installed directory. Remember to keep > the directory structure intact when Unzipping.

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process Cool. Thanks. > remember, lower numbers mean higher priority. Thank you -- got that from man/help/info etc. Opposite to Win32 but that's ok since it is documented. It was driving me crazy to have to go find the PID and use TaskMan

Re: change the font size of rxvt

2005-09-29 Thread HopeSeekr of xMule
Simple: -fn "fixedsys-12" -- 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/

Re: IP_MULTICAST_IF et. all / Winsock[2] value conflict

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 29 11:27, Brian Ford wrote: > > I'm having a problem with IP_MULTICAST_IF not working on Cygwin. While > > investigating, I came across this MS KB article that might describe my > > problem: > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?sc

Re: Bug in dd ?? at EOM

2005-09-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 29 18:10, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > Reading /dev/fd0 fails :-( > $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=kk bs=512 conv=noerror,sync > dd: opening `/dev/fd0': Invalid request code > > with snapshot cygwin1-20050928.dll Thanks for the report. I've applied a fix. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: IP_MULTICAST_IF et. all / Winsock[2] value conflict

2005-09-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 29 11:27, Brian Ford wrote: > I'm having a problem with IP_MULTICAST_IF not working on Cygwin. While > investigating, I came across this MS KB article that might describe my > problem: > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257460 > > IP_MULTICAST_IF can have two valu

IP_MULTICAST_IF et. all / Winsock[2] value conflict

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Ford
I'm having a problem with IP_MULTICAST_IF not working on Cygwin. While investigating, I came across this MS KB article that might describe my problem: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257460 IP_MULTICAST_IF can have two values (2 or 9) depending on whether you're linking t

Re: Bug in dd ?? at EOM

2005-09-29 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Corinna Vinschen skrev: > On Sep 26 12:08, Dave Korn wrote: >> Original Message >> >From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner >> >Sent: 26 September 2005 11:43 >> >> > When using dd with flags conv=noerror,sync >> > It tries reading after the disc ends. >> > >> > This line in cygwin tries reading past end

Re: cygssl-0.9.7 and python

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Jacek Pop³awski wrote: > You will notice error "unable to remap", everything is fixed after removing > that file! This just means that you need to install rebase and run rebaseall from an ash prompt. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: 1.5.x: Windows 2003 - no console output

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Kalders wrote: > I thought the non-cygwin sshd apps were just making use of cygwin in a > custom way, without the need of installing cygwin itself. At least, when > they get installed, you end up with some command-line tools, among which a > cygwin dll. That made me assume these apps are just

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

2005-09-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:43:59AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > How are your permissions on c:\cygwin and c:\cygwin\etc? running as admin, and it was same with FAT32. > > > It would be interesting to see what the log looks like for a real > > > install -- download from internet, etc. > >

Re: Setup error: "URL Scheme not registered!"

2005-09-29 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 9/24/05, wrote: > I'm setting up Cygwin. I downloaded files to one machine, and I want > to install over the network to another machine (I don't have enough > space for both the pre- and post-install files on the target machine). > However, when I run setup on the other machine, as soon as it st

RE: ./configure and pthreads

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Ford > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:26 AM > > Sure I would love someone to just 'solve' this for me but > what is the > > most useful way to diagnose (or learn to diagnose) this proble

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Herb: > > It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job > in reduced > > priority. > > > > I am betting this is just ignorance on my part -- there is > a command > > right? > > Yes, and a very nice one... :-) See "man nice"

Re: ./configure and pthreads

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > I am attempting to ./configure 'dspam' for make > on CygWin 1.5.18 (release with most all updates). > > ./configure --version > dspam configure 3.6.rc3 > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59 > > ./configure gives this pthreads related error message: > > ch

./configure and pthreads

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
I am attempting to ./configure 'dspam' for make on CygWin 1.5.18 (release with most all updates). ./configure --version dspam configure 3.6.rc3 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59 ./configure gives this pthreads related error message: checking how you like your pthreads... unknown configure:

Re: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > I tried the naive approach of running copy of cmd.exe to get "start > /belownormal" but that didn't work and isn't realy what I want anyway. > It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job in reduced > priority. > > I am betting this is just

Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
I tried the naive approach of running copy of cmd.exe to get "start /belownormal" but that didn't work and isn't realy what I want anyway. It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job in reduced priority. I am betting this is just ignorance on my part -- there is a command right?

RE: Tasking not implemented on this configuration

2005-09-29 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Anh Vo wrote: > If you need both Ada compiler with run-time support and cygwin, do > the following. ... > 3. Unzip them in cygwin installed directory. Remember to keep > the directory structure intact when Unzipping. In addition, > select over all when prompted by WinZip. This sounds dangerous to

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

2005-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:19:58AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > http://hands.com/~lkcl/cygwin > > > > Umm, doesn't look like you actually tried to install anything... Did you > > simply switch to partial view and then cancel?

[ADMINISTRIVIA] cygwin.com/sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org/sources.redhat.com server downtime

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
The machine running all the cygwin project services, cygwin.com (aka sourceware.org aka sources.redhat.com aka etc.) will be down this weekend, Saturday 2005-10-01. Its services are being transferred to a new larger and faster machine. Hopefully it will only be down for a few hours, but it would

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

2005-09-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:19:58AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > http://hands.com/~lkcl/cygwin > > Umm, doesn't look like you actually tried to install anything... Did you > simply switch to partial view and then cancel? no - i didn't!! it's a minimum install which i downloaded earl

A problem with the patch utility and windows paths.

2005-09-29 Thread Bob Rundle
Greetings, I've having a few issues with the patch utility. It is not working with windows paths. I am using Windows XP and the latest cygwin patch. Any help is appreciated. Attached is the cygcheck file. If I have two directories "oldversion" and "newversion" $ diff -u oldversion newversion

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

2005-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:09:44AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke

Re: Bug in dd ?? at EOM

2005-09-29 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Corinna Vinschen skrev: > On Sep 26 12:08, Dave Korn wrote: >> Original Message >> >From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner >> >Sent: 26 September 2005 11:43 >> >> > When using dd with flags conv=noerror,sync >> > It tries reading after the disc ends. >> > >> > This line in cygwin tries reading past end

Re: bug in rmdir(2)

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/29/2005 6:31 AM: > > Try the actual call rmdir(2) and especially read the rmdir entry in SUSv3: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rmdir.html That's exactly what I did before first raising my

cygssl-0.9.7 and python

2005-09-29 Thread Jacek Popławski
Hi! This bug really annoys me, because I need to remove library to use my Python script, and lots of applications (like lftp) uses that library... Problem is related to /bin/cygssl-0.9.7.dll file. try following steps: 1) run python 2) write: 'import subprocess' 3) write: 'subprocess.Popen("ls")

Re: Socket operation on non-socket with rsync/ssh

2005-09-29 Thread Pablo Halpern
Larry Hall cygwin.com> writes: > > At 11:14 PM 9/26/2005, Pablo Halpern wrote: > >I'm having a similar problem. The results of cygcheck.svr are at the end of > >this message. > > > >The symptoms are this: > >1. ssh-add gives these messages when trying to set a passphrase: > >bash% eval $(ss

Re: bug in rmdir(2)

2005-09-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 29 06:17, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/29/2005 1:50 AM: > >>The fix to rmdir(2) is easy - check for a trailing / or /. or /.. > >>before handing the name off to the complex path processing > >>code, and fail with

Re: bug in rmdir(2)

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/29/2005 1:50 AM: >>The fix to rmdir(2) is easy - check for a trailing / or /. or /.. >>before handing the name off to the complex path processing >>code, and fail with EINVAL if so. rmdir(2) isn't called often >>enou

RE: 1.5.x: Windows 2003 - no console output

2005-09-29 Thread Igor Kalders
> You are running non-Cygwin programs in a Cygwin tty (because you have > 'tty' in $CYGWIN.) Non-Cygwin programs do not know what a Cygwin tty > is, and think they are writing to a pipe. This causes the output to be > buffered, so you only see output in large chunks when the buffer fills > enough

Re: 1.5.x: Windows 2003 - no console output

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Kalders wrote: > - Start the console with "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" > - CD to the cygwin installation directory ("C:\Program Files\OpenSSH", > "C:\Program Files\CopSSH" or "C:\cygwin") > - Execute any command (ls, ps, man, bash, ...) > - Getting no console output You are running non-Cygw

1.5.x: Windows 2003 - no console output

2005-09-29 Thread Igor Kalders
After installing OpenSSHD, CopSSH or just the latest cygwin setup, I cannot get any console output at the Windows command prompt (cmd.exe). What I'm doing: - Start the console with "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" - CD to the cygwin installation directory ("C:\Program Files\OpenSSH", "C:\Program File

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

2005-09-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:09:44AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 a

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

2005-09-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hmmm fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 2 No such ... fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection) failed 2 No such ... fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed 2 No such ... partial view selected, partial view shows all files i previously downloaded. this version of setup this time picks up c:\cygfiles

Re: Which libraries or programs write to /var/log/wtmp ?

2005-09-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 29 09:16, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > That is why I am trying to find out by which programs > this writing to wtmp can be caused. wtmp is written by all applications calling login(3), logout(3), logwtmp(3) or updwtmp(3). These are usually login processes like login, started from telnet, or ssh

Re: Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X)

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Anthony Foglia wrote: > Has anyone else experienced long load times for bash/cygwin.bat > when running ZoneAlarm Security Suite? And if so, do you have any ideas > how to speed it up? With ZoneAlarm shut down, I get a bash prompt in > under 2 seconds. With ZoneAlarm running, it takes ov

Re: bug in rmdir(2)

2005-09-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 28 22:26, Eric Blake wrote: > > At 04:31 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: > > >POSIX requires resolving a filename with a trailing slash as > > >though . were implicitly present, and requires rmdir(2) to fail > > >with EINVAL if the final component is '.'. Therefore, both of > > >these cases should

Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X)

2005-09-29 Thread Anthony Foglia
Has anyone else experienced long load times for bash/cygwin.bat when running ZoneAlarm Security Suite? And if so, do you have any ideas how to speed it up? With ZoneAlarm shut down, I get a bash prompt in under 2 seconds. With ZoneAlarm running, it takes over a full minute. I believ

Which libraries or programs write to /var/log/wtmp ?

2005-09-29 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Hello, We had a problem induced on Samba by our Cygwin installation. Our /var/log/wtmp file grew enormously and made Samba connections flaky. By removing the wtmp file the flakyness is solved, but we would like to know the real cause why the wtmp grew so enormously in such a short time. I am talki