kill -2 is too powerful

2007-07-12 Thread patrickinminneapolis
I have a VB.net Console App which catches "Ctrl-C" and then gives the user an option "e(x)it \ (r)un". I learned that I needed to set CYGWIN = "notty" and so now the console app catches Ctrl-C properly within a Cygwin console. I need to run the program as a service however, net start IB, and then

Re: clamav 0.91

2007-07-12 Thread Reini Urban
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Just a note that clamav has a new version out 0.91, which may be a significant change over 0.90.3 which we have now, if increasing the from 90 to 91, rather than the more minor number. Anyway since the new version is out... freshclam gives the following notice: "WAR

Re: cygrunsrv startup issues

2007-07-12 Thread patrickinminneapolis
did you do a ssh-host-config? did you try net start sshd instead? these might help a bit -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cygrunsrv-startup-issues-tf4071328.html#a11574214 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2007-07-12 Thread fergus
This question isn't strictly Cygwin, but I hope it's OK to ask it in the context of Cygwin on a portable device eg a CD or a usb mobile drive or memory stick: the bash command if [ -w /h ] ; then echo +W ; else echo -W ; fi tests a device located at /h (or /cygdrive/h) for write-abili

Re: cygport: patches welcome?

2007-07-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew Schulman on 7/12/2007 12:26 PM: > (2) Smarter update of config files. In cygport's make_etc_defaults > function, we have a golden opportunity to fix a problem that's persisted for > a long time in Cygwin: when a package's default

Re: clamav 0.91

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway since the new version is out... freshclam gives the following notice: > > "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! > WARNING: Local version: 0.90.3 Recommended version: 0.91" This is not a new condition, it's printed that for years. If there was a recen

clamav 0.91

2007-07-12 Thread wynfield
Just a note that clamav has a new version out 0.91, which may be a significant change over 0.90.3 which we have now, if increasing the from 90 to 91, rather than the more minor number. Anyway since the new version is out... freshclam gives the following notice: "WARNING: Your ClamAV installati

Re: cygrunsrv startup issues

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Richard wrote: > Windows 2003 Std. > > when I try to start the cygrunsrv service, I get the following messages in > the > SSHD log. You've got a terminology problem here. You're trying to start the *sshd* service, and sshd is giving you these errors. The fact that cygrunsrv is the generic fr

cygrunsrv startup issues

2007-07-12 Thread Richard
Good Day: Windows 2003 Std. when I try to start the cygrunsrv service, I get the following messages in the SSHD log. Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 1. Could not

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gv-3.6.3-1 - A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets

2007-07-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gv' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets CYGWIN NEWS: o Routine update to latest upstream release gv NEWS: %%% GV 3.6.3 (June 2007) %

Re: which packages are needed for simple bashing

2007-07-12 Thread Markus Elfring
I can't put the entire distribution onto my flash drive, so I need a list of packages to give the the basic functionality described above. How can I obtain/generate such a list? Would you like to create a distro that will be similar to Damn Small Linux? http://damnsmalllinux.org/ http://puppy

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-12 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Christopher Faylor wrote: The issue is well understood and there is no reason to send more email about this unless the email contains a patch. cgf The current isabspath() macro requires an absolute path starting with drive letter and colon to be just drive letter and colon or to be followed

cygport: patches welcome?

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
I like cygport and would like to make a couple of improvements to it: (1) Comprehensive man page, describing the available facilities for writing cygport scripts. As it is now, I have to page through /usr/lib/cygport/bin/* and even /usr/bin/cygport itself, to see what the available functions are

RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

2007-07-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12 July 2007 17:03, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > For extra credit, I tried the same thing to try to add a user from a > stand-alone server (not a member of any domain). Unfortunately, running > > mkpasswd -d machine -u user > > again gave the error: > > mkpasswd (749): [1355] The specifie

RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

2007-07-12 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Long, Phillip GOSS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...]what I did was to use 'runas' in a CMD window to log on as the user in the other (untrusted, > IIRC) domain and run 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup' from there, [...] Thank you very much! Using: runas /netonly /user:domain\user "cmd" and the

Re: which packages are needed for simple bashing

2007-07-12 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:57 -0700, on behalf of wardhj wrote: > Greetings. > > I just want basic functionality: a shell (say, bash) and basic unix commands > like ls, wc, diff, vi, cd, and find. > > The target machine (on which I want to install Cygwin) has no network > connection, so I will hav

which packages are needed for simple bashing

2007-07-12 Thread wardhj
Greetings. I just want basic functionality: a shell (say, bash) and basic unix commands like ls, wc, diff, vi, cd, and find. The target machine (on which I want to install Cygwin) has no network connection, so I will have to download the packages onto my flash, and then carry the flash to my Win

Re: lftp-3.5.11-2*tar.bz2 wrongly located under release/?

2007-07-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 14:20, fergus wrote: > >>Currently on at least one mirror the two files > >>lftp-3.5.11-2*tar.bz2 are wrongly (?) located > >>directly under release/ and not release/lftp/. > >>Fergus > > >Thanks for the hint. Fixed. > >Corinna > > Still in setup.ini after a recent update to 1184241607

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: screen-4.0.3-1

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
Thanks everyone. As I said before, there were many little pieces to be solved, and plenty of credit to go around in the Cygwin community. Happy screening. Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documenta

Re: lftp-3.5.11-2*tar.bz2 wrongly located under release/?

2007-07-12 Thread fergus
Currently on at least one mirror the two files lftp-3.5.11-2*tar.bz2 are wrongly (?) located directly under release/ and not release/lftp/. Fergus Thanks for the hint. Fixed. Corinna Still in setup.ini after a recent update to 1184241607: an entry for lftp under a paragraph headed @release.

RE: rxvt question

2007-07-12 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
Teggy P Veerapen wrote: >Hi all, > >After several years of cygwin with the windows console, I am trying to use >rxvt to run cygwin bash and I am running into an issue when running commands >such as sqlplus. > >I should point out that my question might not be completely related to >cygwin. Having se

Re: rxvt question

2007-07-12 Thread Eric Lilja
Teggy P Veerapen wrote: Hi all, [snip] I use TCI instead of rxvt these now. This way I get tabbed consoles and I can work with MySQL Monitor, which isn't a cygwin program either. Maybe it can do what you want, there's an evaluation version available. You might also want to try console2, a s

Re: No such file or directory

2007-07-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
syam prasad wrote: Hi, I installed cygwin , version 3.2.17(15)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) ^^^ This is not a valid release version of Cygwin. Looks to me like you grabbed the output of 'bash --version' and munged it for your purposes. Don't do

confdefs.h failure during configure

2007-07-12 Thread groundfish
Hello, I have recently installed CygWin to evaluate BCU SDK package. There are some additional packages that I need to install beside SDK. All packages are .tar.gz packages that I have unpacked using tar and now need to configure the install files. I am getting the same response every time when

Re: rxvt question

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> If this is the cause of the problem then the solution is simple: use a > Cygwin version of the app or avoid the use of ptys. There's no Cygwin version of SQL*Plus, which comes as a binary blob from Oracle. I was going to say "Unfortunately", but decided that this is actually a blessing. Teggy,

Re: rxvt question

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Teggy P Veerapen wrote: > >From what I've read so far, it would seem that rxvt does not handle > correctly terminal operations and that's what is causing these issues. No, that's not it at all. This has nothing to do with any deficiency with rxvt, which is fully functional in the terminal handli

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: screen-4.0.3-1

2007-07-12 Thread burning shadow
I too want to say BIG THANKS for this release. I waited for SCREEN from the first day I installed cygwin. :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

rxvt question

2007-07-12 Thread Teggy P Veerapen
Hi all, After several years of cygwin with the windows console, I am trying to use rxvt to run cygwin bash and I am running into an issue when running commands such as sqlplus. I should point out that my question might not be completely related to cygwin. Having searched the web extensively for s