Re: Replacing setup.exe and cygcheck with dpkg (Was: Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help)

2009-03-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:45:39PM -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:42:31AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: > > (Since 1.7 already fixes the problem of installing running programs, > > Color me dubious. How did you solve the problem of installing cygwin over > a r

Re: Replacing setup.exe and cygcheck with dpkg (Was: Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help)

2009-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:42:31AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Christopher Faylor schreef: >>> setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of >>> using >>> yum and rpm was ever tossed around? >> Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to >> getting th

Replacing setup.exe and cygcheck with dpkg (Was: Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help)

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
Christopher Faylor schreef: setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using yum and rpm was ever tossed around? Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to getting these working, mainly due to problems installing already-running programs. cgf

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {tiff/libtiff5/libtiff-devel/tiff-doc}-3.8.2-4; New: tiff-opengl-3.8.2-4; Removed {libtiffxx5/libtiffxx-devel}-3.8.2-4

2009-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The tiff package provides libraries and utilities for manipulating TIFF image files. This is a security and packaging update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This will most likely be the final tiff update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future development will continue with tiff-3.8.2-10 for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {tiff/libtiff5/libtiff-devel/tiff-doc}-3.8.2-10; New: tiff-opengl-3.8.2-10; Removed {libtiffxx5/libtiffxx-devel}-3.8.2-10

2009-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The tiff package provides libraries and utilities for manipulating TIFF image files. This is a security and packaging update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneously-released tiff-3.8.2

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-03-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I run cygwin in Vista: > > I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as > well as map it to drive B:. > > I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the > same user which has mapped the shadow copy to the dri

psql and mintty

2009-03-08 Thread newsletter
Hi all I have been using psql with mintty sucessfully for some time now with cygwin 1.5 over the weekend I did a update of cygwin and now psql application hangs with mintty. it works still with the 'standard' cygwin console. any ideas? Stephen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: df -T shows system,fixed under cygwin

2009-03-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dat Head wrote: > I'm sure there is a good reason that it doesn't (or can't) display > ntfs, or fat32, etc > but was wondering what that reason is? is there another tool that could be > used > for getting that info from cygwin command line? > > I

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-03-08 Thread Andy Koppe
> What I found missing in Mintty is putty feature to start duplicate > session (more welcome with hot-keys) Since MinTTY doesn't have sessions like Putty, I didn't think there was much point in keeping this. Desktop and quickstart shortcuts already provide quick ways to open a new MinTTY window, a

Re: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

2009-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > Hello Brian, > > * On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:29:02PM -0500 Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis >> wrote: > >> > Well, we can think about many things: However, this is not the way it >> > works on Win

Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help

2009-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:10:01PM -0400, Dat Head wrote: >-p option says "requies" instead of "requires" This is fixed in CVS. Thanks for the heads up. >setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using >yum and rpm was ever tossed around? Yes, it has been discussed m

df -T shows system,fixed under cygwin

2009-03-08 Thread Dat Head
I'm sure there is a good reason that it doesn't (or can't) display ntfs, or fat32, etc but was wondering what that reason is? is there another tool that could be used for getting that info from cygwin command line? I looked in the FAQ bug couldn't find anything on this topic. -- Unsubscribe info

cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help

2009-03-08 Thread Dat Head
-p option says "requies" instead of "requires" setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using yum and rpm was ever tossed around? i guess they would need too much twiddling to work. cygcheck is 1.90.4.1 version -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move

2009-03-08 Thread jose isaias cabrera
"Mark J. Reed" wrote... On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote: jic 15:58:01-> rsync -ru --exclude '*~' jic...@camello:*.txt ./ Password: jic 16:02:44-> the cursor does not move and anything typed does not get displayed in the DOS Cygwin bash terminal. However, whatever I ty

Re: Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move

2009-03-08 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote: > jic 15:58:01-> rsync -ru --exclude '*~' jic...@camello:*.txt ./ > Password: > jic 16:02:44-> > > the cursor does not move and anything typed does not get displayed in the > DOS Cygwin bash terminal.  However, whatever I type it is being p

Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move

2009-03-08 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Greetings. Long story... But I deleted the previous cygwin installation because of the same problem, as above. I installed back most of the packages that I previously had and I am having the same problem: after running rsync with this command, jic 15:58:01-> rsync -ru --exclude '*~' jic..

Re: doc suggestions for User Guide's "Special filenames", including `cat /proc/partitions`

2009-03-08 Thread S Page
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Can you please check against the latest documentation under > http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > and see if it explains anything better in this regard? The "POSIX devices" section is much the same. > If not, I'm open to suggestions to make

Re: doc suggestions for User Guide's "Special filenames", including `cat /proc/partitions`

2009-03-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 8 00:36, S Page wrote: > I was trying to figure out what device mapped to my USB flash drive. > I eventually used `cat /proc/partitions` to determine it was > /dev/sdb1. > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Can you please check against the latest documentation u

Re: Turning off execute permission

2009-03-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 7 08:36, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Paul McFerrin on 3/7/2009 12:49 AM: > > I've been reading: > > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files > > on the execute permissions. Did I read that it was impossible to deny > > execute permissions?? In my tests, the follow i

doc suggestions for User Guide's "Special filenames", including `cat /proc/partitions`

2009-03-08 Thread S Page
I was trying to figure out what device mapped to my USB flash drive. I eventually used `cat /proc/partitions` to determine it was /dev/sdb1. http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html in the User's Guide covers this topic, but is missing some important information. Here are seven