Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP

Mike Dieter wrote: > Is there a way to suppress CRON MAILING ME from 'mature' scripts where I > think I know what cron will say and I don't care? In addition to what Eric said (lose the '&' at the end), you can use MAILTO="" to tell cron not to send any mail on failure. "man 5 crontab" should be

Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mike Dieter on 9/30/2005 9:35 PM: > So next I tried only escaping the percent sign AND IT WORKED! > 10 9 * * 1-5 /home/Gary/MCD.send --subject "`date +\%B` Clearance" 2>&1 >> /dev/null & Well, yeah - isn't that what 'man 5 crontab' said?

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Charles Wilson on 9/30/2005 10:07 AM: > > cygstart was contributed by Michael Schapp, who is still around but > doesn't post often. cygstart, aside from its option handling, is a very > simple app. The core routine just uses the Windows

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:34:58PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:08:10PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Brian Ford wrote: >>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> > So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so I'm asking

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:08:10PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Brian Ford wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so I'm asking >> > for testing help. You all should know the drill by now but, just

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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > > Incidentally, the command referenced there: > > > > /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4 > > > > never worked for me. I just tried all permutations of automake again and > > only /usr/bin/automake-1.9 is acce

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

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > While the system is down there will be no web service, mailing lists, > CVS, or FTP. setup.exe will also not work since it relies on the > ability to contact sourceware.org. One comment on the last point: I've submitted a patch to Cygwin setup to

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

On Sep 30 12:07, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:17:06AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: > > > >>I just did some version testing on the cygstart .mdb problem I reported a > >>few > >>days ago(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html), and it is

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

On Sep 30 10:07, Brian Ford wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 29 12:04, Brian Ford wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > There's no easy fix right now. We have to drop all traces of Winsock1 > > > > in Cygwin and change the headers accordi

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

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wilson > Brian Ford wrote: > > Incidentally, the command referenced there: > > > > /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4 > > > > never worked for me. I just tried all permutations of > automake again > > and only /usr/bin/a

Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: We already have such a tool. It's called "cygcheck". When people post their cygcheck output to the list, it also contains the list of packages they installed. But not what they are *using*, which seems to be the big thing in popularity-contest. Given that disks ar

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

Brian Ford wrote: Incidentally, the command referenced there: /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4 never worked for me. I just tried all permutations of automake again and only /usr/bin/automake-1.9 is accepted. All others give something like: /usr/bin/automake-1.4 has

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

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Ford > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:59 PM > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > and > Incidentally, the command referenced there: > /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/b

Cygwin xfig eps problem

I'm using xfig (3.2.4 - from a recent (last week) Cygwin install) in Cygwin on Windows XP Home with NTFS filesystem. I'm having trouble with importing EPS files into xfig using the "Picture Object" command. I can import 1 EPS file without problem. However, when I try to import a second (different)

Re: Please help on GCC

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, estech users wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, estech users wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > Somebody helping me on my research wor

Re: Please help on GCC

Dear Sir, Thanks so much for your quick response. I saw the packages but how to download the gcc files and install is the problem, please help me. Best wishes, Olorunfemi, Temitope --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, estech users wrote: > > > Dear all, > >

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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > and Incidentally, the command referenced there: /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4 never worked for me. I just tried all permutations of automake again and only /usr/bin

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so I'm asking > for testing help. You all should know the drill by now but, just in case > you don't: This isn't a recent regression, and it may not even be supported, but I thought I'd re

Re: Please help on GCC

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, estech users wrote: > Dear all, > > Somebody helping me on my research work has just > introduced me to your wonderful work. > > I am currently using Win XP, I loaded the cygwin just > 2 days ago and the version of the cygcheck is 1.74 and > it was compiled on July 2 2005. > >

Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > Debian has a package called popularity-contest: > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/popularity-contest. The > > package installs a cron job that mails in statistics once a week about > > which

Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Debian has a package called popularity-contest: > http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/popularity-contest. The package > installs a cron job that mails in statistics once a week about which Debian > packages the user has installed, and which ones th

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

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, cygwin.overbored 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 othe

RE: [Spamprobe-users] new spamprobe BerkeleyDB on CygWin

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:46:43AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: > > The system is a reasonably fast, not cutting edge, 2 Ghz > Celeron with > > 1 MB of RAM. > > Holy cow what operating system can run on 1 MB or RAM??? Obviously a type, should be 1GB. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info:

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

> I doubt it. I'm the maintainer of the autoconf, automake, > and libtool packages and your explanation confused *me*. > > Please see: > "Updated: All autotools on cygwin (autoconf, automake, libtool)" > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-08/msg00059.html > > -- > Chuck It explain only

Please help on GCC

Dear all, Somebody helping me on my research work has just introduced me to your wonderful work. I am currently using Win XP, I loaded the cygwin just 2 days ago and the version of the cygcheck is 1.74 and it was compiled on July 2 2005. My problem now is that the gcc command in not found and al

cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:17:06AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: I just did some version testing on the cygstart .mdb problem I reported a few days ago(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html), and it is indeed a regression from 1.5.18. Cygstart works fine wi

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

> No, that means that the batch file is invoked, not the command. What > happens when you open a cmd.exe window and type "c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat"? I tried all the permutations of those actions. Nothing. > > But invoking bash by double-clicking cygwin.bat, is not any different > > from manually st

popularity-contest for Cygwin?

Debian has a package called popularity-contest: http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/popularity-contest. The package installs a cron job that mails in statistics once a week about which Debian packages the user has installed, and which ones they're using. This allows the Debian team to track wh

Re: Setup error: "URL Scheme not registered!

On 9/30/05, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: [snip] > You can expect no support. You will, after a short while, start to > receive sarcastic comments from the developers. You will be blamed > for your problem. You will be directed to information of no value > in determining what is wrong. The only recourse

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

Herb Martin wrote: This portion of my problem is solved but I thought the explanation might help others. I doubt it. I'm the maintainer of the autoconf, automake, and libtool packages and your explanation confused *me*. Please see: "Updated: All autotools on cygwin (autoconf, automake, lib

Re: Setup error: "URL Scheme not registered!

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 i

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:17:06AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: >I just did some version testing on the cygstart .mdb problem I reported a few >days ago(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html), and it is >indeed a regression from 1.5.18. Cygstart works fine with 1.5.18, but as >early as

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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > [Ugh. Duplicate response. Duly noted.] Yes, it is. And within 5.5 minutes, no less. Shouldn't there be a grace period? :-) > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:36:55AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >If you're at

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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Igor Kalders wrote: > > So, you start CMD.EXE and type "ls" and something runs but you see no > > output? Does it hang, or just exit immediately? > > 1. I call CMD.exe > 2. If not already in the PATH, I add C:\cygwin\bin (as the first entry) > 3. If asked for, I adjust CYGWIN

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

I just did some version testing on the cygstart .mdb problem I reported a few days ago(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html), and it is indeed a regression from 1.5.18. Cygstart works fine with 1.5.18, but as early as the 20050909 snapshot(as far back as I have)it fails on MDB files.

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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 29 12:04, Brian Ford wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > There's no easy fix right now. We have to drop all traces of Winsock1 > > > in Cygwin and change the headers accordingly. > > > > Can't we just translate these b

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

[Ugh. Duplicate response. Duly noted.] On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:36:55AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >If you're attempting to have patch interpret the paths in the patch file >then, as Eric said, you need to specify the "-p" option. In the above >case, specifying "patch -p0 <1.tm" will ca

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

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Bob Rundle wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:40 PM > > To: Bob Rundle > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks.

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

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:23:56AM -0600, Bob Rundle wrote: >Here is a reproducible script > >$ mkdir old >$ mkdir new >$ cat >old/file >Line1 >Asdf >Line2 >^D >$ cat >new/file >Line1 >Fdsa >Line2 >^D >$ diff -u old new >1.tm >$ patch <1.tm > >The last command gives the error > >can't find file to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: ploticus, libploticus, ploticus-common, ploticus-doc

Ploticus is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Ploticus is command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data. Ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation. With ploticus you can use 'prefabs' to quickly create common types of graphs, or write

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

Here is a reproducible script $ mkdir old $ mkdir new $ cat >old/file Line1 Asdf Line2 ^D $ cat >new/file Line1 Fdsa Line2 ^D $ diff -u old new >1.tm $ patch <1.tm The last command gives the error can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option? The

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:06:15AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 30 01:13, Eric Blake wrote: >> Regression from 1.5.18 (probably within the last week, but I can't pinpoint >> which snapshot): On Win98, 20050929 fails to recognize directories >> on remote drives: >> >> $ df -T g: >> Files

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

I hope this won't end up as a double post. I posted it with attachments, but didn't see it come through nor bounce. So here goes again: > You have to understand that the reason > I focused on all the stuff about foreign packages on the system / in the > path is because that kind of thing turns out

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Sep 30 05:57, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot. > > The snapshot that is currently available should be very close to an > > official release of cygwin version 1.5.19. > > does n

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > does not define getdelim() or getline(), although they are > provided in cygwin.din. While I can't say that this is a regression from > 1.5.18, it is causing problems for coreutils-5.90 (coreutils-5.3.0 only > checked if they would link, but cor

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot. > The snapshot that is currently available should be very close to an > official release of cygwin version 1.5.19. does not define getdelim() or getline(), although they are

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

Igor Kalders wrote: > That was what I did first, before I started digging. The bash prompt even > doesn't pop up. For your clear view: If I double-click the batch in Windows, > a cms.exe console windows pops up and goes away. So it looks like the > command really gets invoked. But invoking bash by

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

> Having the GnuWin32 tools in your path could be a source of confusion, > so I wouldn't recommend that. But it appears that your cygwin bin > directory is first in the path and so the cygwin versions should be > found. Stripped it from the PATH. No change. > But do note - by default \cygwin\bi

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

Igor Kalders wrote: > I'll be very clear on this: I'm *not* seeking support for any other package > than cygwin! I'm seeking support to just get cygwin running. > > Therefore, to conclude, I have wiped out the CopSSH and tried a fresh cygwin > install (did I mention I have tried that already mult

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

On Sep 29 12:04, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > There's no easy fix right now. We have to drop all traces of Winsock1 > > in Cygwin and change the headers accordingly. > > Can't we just translate these based on a flag indicating what version we > dynamically

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Sep 30 01:13, Eric Blake wrote: > Regression from 1.5.18 (probably within the last week, but I can't pinpoint > which snapshot): On Win98, 20050929 fails to recognize directories > on remote drives: > > $ df -T g: > FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > g: us

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

> You are on extremely shakey ground with this. Having more than one copy > of cygwin1.dll on your system is a VERY bad idea unless you know exactly > what you're doing. I strongly recommend that you stick to official > Cygwin packages. If you must use something packaged by a third party, > then

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

Herb Martin wrote: > Thanks -- my version was installed from "setup" and is > (theorectically) up to date but shows: > > $ automake --version > automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6 You can call any specific version by name (e.g. automake-1.9) but the unversioned command "automake" has to be set to the