Re: cron

Pierre A. Humblet wrote: [snip] > | On W2K3, if you expect a service to be able to switch user contexts, you > | need a special service account. You can use the 'sshd_server' account that > | would be created for you if you configure 'sshd' and ask it to create the > | account when it asks you.

Re: sftp removing writable bit

Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Andrew DeFaria (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:58 -0700) John J. Culkin wrote: I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file.

Re: cron

- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:58 AM Subject: Re: cron | Alexander Polson wrote: | > <> Hi | > | > I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync | > utility, and triggering this process using cron

Re: Send keystrokes to an XP window

is it a c++ library or what? we need more information. if its a native windows library then it should be trivial to move things to cygwin... On 9/12/07, Rlambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found a module (Win32::GUI) on the Internet. It looks like it can be used > to send keystrokes to an X

wxPython build

Does anyone have a ready-made recipe for building wxPython (and, if necessary, wxWidgets) under Cygwin? I'd like to use the msw back-end rather than the gtk back-end. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Sk

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.45-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.45-1, is available, replacing 1.44-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the changes since 1.44 are: 04-Sep-2007 diffstat 1.45 add "-b" option (Debian #379380,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.9-5

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.9-5, previously available as experimental, is now promoted to current, replacing 6.9-4 and leaving 6.7-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It attempts to add some case-insensitivity smarts to mv, cp

RE: Re: Webdav cadaver: script possible?

I'm a unix sysadmin/oracle DBA. For me, Expect is the killer app of Cygwin, even over the X server. Get the O'Reilly Expect book by Don Libes. It is a treasure trove of Unix knowledge as well as Expcect/TCL. Check out the autoexpect script. You may have to find it somewhere to install it into the C

Re: gcc-dw2? or fast sjlj-exceptions EH

Dear Christopher Faylor > Unless there is something new to be added, can we now give this topic a > rest? It seems like we may be starting to loop. Thank you for your suggestion. I agree with you. I appreciate again all who replied on this topic. FinaliyI hope again this problem will be solv

Re: Win32Core module question

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: On Mon, September 10, 2007 12:34 pm, Reini Urban wrote: John Neil schrieb: Thanks. For now I installed the previous version of the Cygwin perl-libwin32 package, but I agree there should be some way to access the non-core Win32 routines that were previously ava

Re: sftp removing writable bit

Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I didn't imply that - by pure magic - any FTP client is also able to > speak SFTP. By the way that's also true for FTPS, right?! You may not have meant to imply that, but you said "you can use your favorite FTP client" without any further qualification whatsoever. Someone

Re: sftp removing writable bit

* Brian Dessent (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:50:07 -0700) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. > > > > Aah, you mean I'm only dreaming when I connect to my ssh server with > > my favourite commandline FTP clients like lftp and yafc? Time to s

Re: sftp removing writable bit

Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. > > Aah, you mean I'm only dreaming when I connect to my ssh server with > my favourite commandline FTP clients like lftp and yafc? Time to stop > taking all these heavy hallucinogens... Sigh. No, i

Send keystrokes to an XP window

I found a module (Win32::GUI) on the Internet. It looks like it can be used to send keystrokes to an XP window? Can it be installed on CYGWIN? If so, how do you do it? If not, is there some other module that can be used in CYGWIN to send keystrokes to an XP window? Thanks. -- View this messa

Re: sftp removing writable bit

* Brian Dessent (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:38:51 -0700) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have > > > over say... scp? > > > > You can use your favourite FTP client, right?! > > No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session l

Re: sftp removing writable bit

Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have > > over say... scp? > > You can use your favourite FTP client, right?! No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Richard Ivarson wrote: > Just great. How I love these Unix tools - and Cygwin which makes Windows > useable. And of course the people helping each other. > > Btw, I still got two small questions: > 1) Is there a simpler way than the five "-O"'s I used? Would a wildcard be > possible (didn't find

Re: sftp removing writable bit

* Andrew DeFaria (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:58 -0700) > John J. Culkin wrote: > > I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload > > a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. > > This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file. > > > > The

Re: sftp removing writable bit

John J. Culkin wrote: Hello I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file. The files are owned by the SFTP user. Any Ideas? No ideas but a

RE: Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Richard Ivarson wrote on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:42 AM: > Steve Holden schrieb: > [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD https://webdavserver.com/folder/{fileAA,fileBB,fileCC,fileDD,fileEE, }.txt -O -O -O -O -O >>> >>> ... I forgot to mention: In contrast to A)1) with curl you can

RE: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

> -Original Message- > From: On Behalf Of Richard Ivarson > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:42 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget > > Steve Holden schrieb: > [..] > >>> curl --user NAME:PASSWORD > >>> > https://webdavs

Re: cron

Alexander Polson wrote: <> Hi I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync utility, and triggering this process using cron. Over the last 2 years I found more and more machines in my department for which I can not get cron to work anymore, and forcing this backup to b

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Steve Holden schrieb: [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD https://webdavserver.com/folder/{fileAA,fileBB,fileCC,fileDD,fileEE,}.txt -O -O -O -O -O ... I forgot to mention: In contrast to A)1) with curl you can ommit the ":PASSWORD" in the script. The curl then nicely asks for it at runtime. I

sftp removing writable bit

Hello I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file. The files are owned by the SFTP user. Any Ideas? Thanks, -- John C. -- John J. Culki

cron

<> Hi I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync utility, and triggering this process using cron. Over the last 2 years I found more and more machines in my department for which I can not get cron to work anymore, and forcing this backup to be done manually. I have tr

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Richard Ivarson wrote: I've seen two handicaps: 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the script file. Ommiting "--password" doesn't ask for it, however. 'ask for password' is planned in a future release of wget (probably the next-to-next release). -- Matthew An

Re: gcc-dw2? or fast sjlj-exceptions EH

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:23:06AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Tatsuro MATSUOKA on 9/11/2007 9:58 PM: >> Dear Eric > >No need to write me personally - I read the lists. > >> However, I cannot understand the sjlj-exception was adopted in the >> cygwin gcc and mingw gcc of the current ver

Re: gcc-dw2? or fast sjlj-exceptions EH

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tatsuro MATSUOKA on 9/11/2007 9:58 PM: > Dear Eric No need to write me personally - I read the lists. > However, I cannot understand the sjlj-exception was adopted in the > cygwin gcc and mingw gcc of the current version. To rehash thi

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Richard Ivarson wrote: Richard Ivarson schrieb: [..] A) *wget* Fetching the files with wget works: wget --user=NAME --password=PASS https://webdavserver.com/folder/fileAA.txt I've seen two handicaps: 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the script [..] curl

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Richard Ivarson schrieb: [..] A) *wget* Fetching the files with wget works: wget --user=NAME --password=PASS https://webdavserver.com/folder/fileAA.txt I've seen two handicaps: 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the script [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD ht

Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

Gregg Reynolds schrieb: On 9/7/07, Richard Ivarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For example, until now I've to do these steps: > cadaver https://my_webdav.site.com this asks for username and password, then enters cadaver's command mode there I've to enter: * mget the_files * quit If all you'r