Re: ssh broken?

2007-11-07 Thread Erik M
Hi, I also got the same problem since a few days. I have done a complete reinstall of cygwin, but it didn't help. I get "ssh: connect to host ... port 22: No error" immediately regardless if the address I try towards actually exists or not. I used wireshark on the destination computer, and

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 7 09:10, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: [off-topic stuff] [more off-topic stuff] Can you please stop discussing this here? Whether or not it's good or bad to write portable or non-portable scripts is really not an issue for this ML. Consider to http:

Re: winsup cvs checkout weirdness

2007-11-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Lapo Luchini wrote: > I wonder why the -d option weirds out the checkout. > > -d dir Check out into dir instead of module name. > > ...and moreover, should by default be created in a "winsup" directory? > ("instead of module name" in the man, which suggests it's the default) It's a "featur

winsup cvs checkout weirdness

2007-11-07 Thread Lapo Luchini
% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src checkout -dtry winsup U try/.cvsignore U try/COPYING U try/COPYING3 U try/COPYING.LIB U try/COPYING3.LIB U try/COPYING.NEWLIB U try/COPYING.LIBGLOSS U try/ChangeLog U try/MAINTAINERS U try/Makefile.def U try/Makefile.in U try/Makefile.tpl U try/R

Re: Can't start cron as a service, I'm getting the Win32 error 1062 message

2007-11-07 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Jerome Fong" <> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: Can't start cron as a service, I'm getting the Win32 error 1062 message | Hi there, | | I'm not having any luck starting up cron as a service? I installed | cygwin as a local user, th

Can't start cron as a service, I'm getting the Win32 error 1062 message

2007-11-07 Thread Jerome Fong
Hi there, I'm not having any luck starting up cron as a service? I installed cygwin as a local user, then I ran mkpasswd with -d since I realized that I should have been a domain user instead. Now, I'm not able start cron as a service. I am using cron_diagnose.sh to config cron as a servi

Re: question about installing older version of gcc

2007-11-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
123 123 wrote: Hello I have a package that requires older version of gcc to be compiled and installed. Is there anyway to install older versions, 2.9.1 or 2.9.5 to be specific, of gcc on cygwin? when I try to install cygwin in select packages step, it only allows me to install either 3.4.4.3 or

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 7 09:10, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote: >> [off-topic stuff] > [more off-topic stuff] Can you please stop discussing this here? Whether or not it's good or bad to write portable or non-portable scripts is really not an issue for this ML. Consider to http://cygwin.com/acronym

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 7, 2007 10:44 AM, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > I once, like you, wondered why I couldn't just have one installation > > of Perl or Python that works in either environment. Since I write > > scripts, not code, > > An aside? How is a Perl script not

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 7, 2007 10:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote: > > ActiveState Perl works very nicely (and the alternative is what, > > vbscript?) on Windows. > No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, > how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cos

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Mathis wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 10:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: ActiveState Perl works very nicely (and the alternative is what, vbscript?) on Windows. No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, how much $$$ does ActiveSt

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Nov 7, 2007 9:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - > No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, > how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cost? And how much was Cygwin's again? - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - This is to avoid people assum

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: I once, like you, wondered why I couldn't just have one installation of Perl or Python that works in either environment. Since I write scripts, not code, An aside? How is a Perl script not Perl code?!? Just wondering... I assumed it was because it was just too hard to

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Mathis wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would you similarly complain that you already have del and dir and not want rm and ls? Personally I dislike ActiveState Perl. Things like setsid just don't work and signal handling is not reliable (that may be better).

question about installing older version of gcc

2007-11-07 Thread 123 123
Hello I have a package that requires older version of gcc to be compiled and installed. Is there anyway to install older versions, 2.9.1 or 2.9.5 to be specific, of gcc on cygwin? when I try to install cygwin in select packages step, it only allows me to install either 3.4.4.3 or 3.3.3.3 gcc-core

Re: Eliminating dead keys under X

2007-11-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Torsten Bronger wrote: Hallöchen! I use X applications that run on a remote Linux server on my local Windows system. I use PuTTY and Cygwin's X server for this. Unfortunately, ~, ', ` etc are dead keys in this configuration. How can I change this? This sounds like an X question to me, so it'

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Mathis wrote: How about if you are writing a Windows application? What if you need to manipulate the Registry or access Win32::OLE objects? You certainly need AS Perl for that. It's not hard to imagine why you'd need a Windows-centric version. Then you are obviously and decidedly writing

Eliminating dead keys under X

2007-11-07 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! I use X applications that run on a remote Linux server on my local Windows system. I use PuTTY and Cygwin's X server for this. Unfortunately, ~, ', ` etc are dead keys in this configuration. How can I change this? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: sqlite3 3.5.1

2007-11-07 Thread Max Bowsher
SQLite 3.5.1 is now packaged in the Cygwin distribution. SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. Max Bowsher. -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page.