Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-17 Thread Haojun Bao
Dave Korn writes: > > I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging, > which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that > you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall > scripts. Checking the log files /var/log/

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-17 Thread Haojun Bao
Dave Korn writes: > > I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging, > which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that > you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall > scripts. Checking the log files /var/log/

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Keith Christian
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Fergus wrote: > #! /bin/sh > #  clean > cat "$1setup.ini" | sed -n '/release\//p' | sed 's/^.*release\///g' |\ I used Fergus' script referenced above, with the "safety feature" of executing "setup.4" independently, as the search and destroy mechanism. I like this

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:59:09PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: I think setup really should just delete the files when it is done with them if you choose "install from internet" >> >>"install from internet" != "install from local directory" > >Ah, now I understand

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: I think setup really should just delete the files when it is done with them if you choose "install from internet" "install from internet" != "install from local directory" Ah, now I understand why I was jumping to conclusions. Thanks for clearing that up. And contra

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:30:38AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >>>Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets >>>around to "Removing the Download to Local Directory" or "Should we >

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Fergus
Are you paying attention? It can be cleaned up by: rm -rf "/h/my name/cygnus solutions/*" Yes, yes. I know. Your internet connection is only 1 byte per second so you desperately need to keep useless files around on disk for when you accidentally type rm -rf /bin. For Goodness sake. There reall

Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

2009-06-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/16/2009 4:34 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/16/2009 2:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:14 -0400 From: Ken Brown Finally, still in cygwin-init.el, I slightly modify browse-url-of-file: ;; browse-url-of-file doesn't work right under cygwin; I'll just open ;; the file usi

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets around to "Removing the Download to Local Directory" or "Should we Delete the Downloaded Files", please consider saying "No" to both pr

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Tried to configure ssh for different users in XP. But the error says "User is not having administrative privilege rights". So nto able to start the sshd service inside their logins. We included both these users in the Administrative Group via compmgmt.msc. What are we missing out here>?? -

Re: job control "Bad address" error

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:48:11AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >>I'm not quite sure how to strace this, since you can't use ^Z to >>suspend an active strace. > >Attach GDB during "sleep 100". Set strace variables in DLL using 'set' >command if needed, or just debug. This has alread

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:34:24AM +0100, Fergus wrote: >Assume your local Cygwin repository is under some /pathname/ for example: >/g/users/yourname/cygfiles/setup.ini AND >/g/users/yourname/cygfiles/release/* >or you can have spaces if you like: >/h/my name/cygnus solutions/setup.ini AND /h/my n

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:54:07PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:16:17PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>> >>> >>>Wouldn't it be nice if setup knew enough to remove the bz2 files for >>>packages that were no longer curren

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that >>those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using just the >>straight install from internet, we probably should be nice and

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Yes you are again right. We tried that option, created 2 different users onto WinXP and made them login and map their individual home directories in their respective logins. But then the problem is , when that user connects to Win XP via SSH , he is not able to see his mapped drive , ( df doe

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 17 14:22, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: > Hello, > > Our requirement was to enable our users to be able to connect to > Windows XP machine via SSH access. Once connected they should be able > to go into their home directory. Their respective home directory > should be Samba mounted onto Win

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
Holikar, Sachin (ext) schrieb: Yes Jakob. We have ssh server configured onto windows XP alongwith Cygwin. After this configuration, we did a samba mount from a Linux Server of lets say my home directory ( the user name is again from a windows Domain Server ). I never tried such a setup howe

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Yes Jakob. We have ssh server configured onto windows XP alongwith Cygwin. After this configuration, we did a samba mount from a Linux Server of lets say my home directory ( the user name is again from a windows Domain Server ). -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
Holikar, Sachin (ext) schrieb: Hello, The SAMBA server is SuSE linux and home directories are samba shared and are in use with proper permissions. What permissions are you talking about here? If you are running SAMBA on cygwin this is not "Suse Linux". Samba relies on the ACL management of

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello, The SAMBA server is SuSE linux and home directories are samba shared and are in use with proper permissions. What permissions are you talking about here? The permissions of the home directories are already been set on Linux Server. There is not problem with that. Am I missing anything t

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello, Our requirement was to enable our users to be able to connect to Windows XP machine via SSH access. Once connected they should be able to go into their home directory. Their respective home directory should be Samba mounted onto WinXP machine so that users ca

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: git-1.6.3.2-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.6.3.2-1

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.6.3.2-1, has been uploaded to the cygwin 1.7 release area. This replaces 1.6.3.1-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream major release. It also changes the location of library executables from /usr/sbin/git-core to t

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:16:17PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> >> Wouldn't it be nice if setup knew enough to remove the bz2 files for >> packages that were no longer current? >> >> > > No need to duck. I think setup really should j

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using just the straight install from internet, we probably should be nice and delete the files. Whenever the next round of changes to setup ha

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: > The next step would be to do some profiling but I am not expert with gprof. > I think that Dave Korn already did something like that, I hope he will > comment. I'm afraid you may have misremembered, or anyway, I don't recall the occasion you're talking about. As far as I kn

Re: job control "Bad address" error

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: > I'm not quite sure how to strace this, since you can't use ^Z to suspend an > active strace. Attach GDB during "sleep 100". Set strace variables in DLL using 'set' command if needed, or just debug. cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Bill McCormick wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Haojun Bao wrote: >> Bill McCormick wrote: > Bill McCormick wrote: >> Bill McCormick wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage >>> output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries: >

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello, Our requirement was to enable our users to be able to connect to Windows XP machine via SSH access. Once connected they should be able to go into their home directory. Their respective home directory should be Samba mounted onto WinXP machine so that users can simply "cd" to their respe

time for docbook-xml45?

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While building git, I'm getting lots of these messages: XMLTO git-verify-tag.1 I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd/usr/src/git-1.6.3.2-1/build/Documentation/git-verify-tag.xml:2: warnin

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Fergus
Assume your local Cygwin repository is under some /pathname/ for example: /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/setup.ini AND /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/release/* or you can have spaces if you like: /h/my name/cygnus solutions/setup.ini AND /h/my name/cygnus solutions/release/* As setup.ini advances wit

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-17 Thread Vincent R.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:52:56 +1000, "Sisyphus" wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Chris Sutcliffe" > >>> >> Times taken were: >>> >> Linux : 1.5 mimutes >>> >> XP (mingw): 6.5 minutes >>> >> Vista (mingw): 16.5 minutes >>> >> Vista (cygwin): 23.25 minutes > >> If UAC is disabled, d

Re: Possible bug in passwd cygwin 1.7, "you may not change the password for"

2009-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 16:52, Jerry A wrote: > Hi, > > I am a "local administrator" on an otherwise locked down corporate > laptop that is running XP and currently, cygwin 1.7, the beta. > > I was running the released version of cygwin and having problems > installing sshd and passwd. I found a thread from b

cmake: Cygwin patches

2009-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Bill, I have a several patches for cmake which I ship in Ports but should really be moved into the distro. I have used these to build dozens of packages, including KDE4. The current patchset is in Ports SVN: http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/devel/cmake/