Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

2009-06-26 Thread Lists
On Jun 19 15:55, Lists wrote: Can you upgrade to the latest Cygwin 1.7 package and try again. From your cygcheck output, it looks like things are not correct but this may be just a problem with an old cygcheck that doesn't know how to find the implicit mounts. If the issue is still the sam

Re: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-26 Thread Chap Harrison
It finally turned out to be that /etc/hosts.deny was too restrictive: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY I ran ssh-host-config, but did not run ssh-user-config. Must have overlooked that step. Perhaps that would have taken care of it? Thanks, Chap On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:17 PM, David Christensen

Re: Another lftp issue

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> After making an sftp connection via lftp, doing a 'cls -ltr' causes a > core dump. I've compiled lftp 3.7.14 using Cygwin 1.7.0-50 using > gcc-4 / g++-4 and it doesn't cause the same core dump. > > Perhaps a new version of lftp (at least for 1.7.0) is in order? Thanks for the report. I've tri

RE: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
Chap Harrison wrote: > Trying to connect with PuTTY gives a "server unexpectedly closed > connectin" error. Have you run ssh-host-config? ssh-user-config? Have you opened up port 22 in your firewall? Have you tried telnet to port 22 from localhost and from another host? HTH, David -- Pr

Another lftp issue

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
After making an sftp connection via lftp, doing a 'cls -ltr' causes a core dump. I've compiled lftp 3.7.14 using Cygwin 1.7.0-50 using gcc-4 / g++-4 and it doesn't cause the same core dump. Perhaps a new version of lftp (at least for 1.7.0) is in order? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergede

Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-26 Thread Chap Harrison
Hi, I followed directions (/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README) as best I could, helped out by a couple of other web sources along the way. I know almost nothing about Windows administration. Trying to connect with PuTTY gives a "server unexpectedly closed connectin" error. Here is wh

Re: "bash: $'\r': command not found"; also "e"s nonfunctional and get deleted in bash window

2009-06-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Richard Haney wrote: > Thanks all for the comments. > > It turns out that, by info discovered via using "bash --help" and then `bash > -c "help set"', I could > simply add `-o igncr' to the login command line in the cygwin.bat file. But set -o igncr only affects

Re: zip-3.0-10

2009-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Charles Wilson on 6/26/2009 5:40 PM: > Kostya Altukhov wrote: > >> Is there any particular reason why zip from cygwin-1.7 does not have >> .exe extension anymore? > > Nope. Probably just a packaging bug exposed by the changes in coreutil

Re: undefined reference

2009-06-26 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Winderson Martins de Souza" To: ; Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:32 PM Subject: Fwd: undefined reference Hello, I'm trying to compile gettext on cygwin, but I'm getting an undefined reference error, could anyone help?? I'm running configure without share

Re: "bash: $'\r': command not found"; also "e"s nonfunctional and get deleted in bash window

2009-06-26 Thread Richard Haney
Thanks all for the comments. It turns out that, by info discovered via using "bash --help" and then `bash -c "help set"', I could simply add `-o igncr' to the login command line in the cygwin.bat file. That's a lot simpler than using d2u or introducing another editor. Richard Haney --- On T

Re: gvim crashes immediately

2009-06-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Yanroy wrote: Hi all... the subject line pretty much says it all. I've installed Cygwin and Cygwin/X. The X server appears to work correctly. XTerm runs fine. All the command-line apps work great. When I launch gvim, it spins for a moment and then crashes with an access violation. Nothing

Re: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Mark Harig wrote: >> Do you have any recommendations about what the utility program /usr/bin/ascii >> (in the package 'cygutils') should do? > > Since the Cygwin version of ascii doesn't appear to have a man page, > I'm not sure what it "shou

Re: zip-3.0-10

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Kostya Altukhov wrote: > Is there any particular reason why zip from cygwin-1.7 does not have > .exe extension anymore? Nope. Probably just a packaging bug exposed by the changes in coreutils for 1.7. I'll look in to it. Thanks for the report. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

gvim crashes immediately

2009-06-26 Thread Yanroy
Hi all... the subject line pretty much says it all. I've installed Cygwin and Cygwin/X. The X server appears to work correctly. XTerm runs fine. All the command-line apps work great. When I launch gvim, it spins for a moment and then crashes with an access violation. Nothing is written to th

RE: Help with using Bash / GCC installed but command not found

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
MattyTheG wrote: > Hello, I have been using Cygwin for about a year now, with no > problems. Until one day I loaded it up and instead of the usual > interface I had, it just said bash-3.2$, no username, or directory or > anything, and none of the unix commands work. My guess is that your Windows H

Re: Running 1.5 and 1.7 sshd in parallel

2009-06-26 Thread Federico Hernandez
THX for the fast answer. That is exactly what I tried. 1.5 on port 22 1.7 on port but when I ssh into I endup in $HOME of 1.5 and sometimes the sshd on doesn't start. How can I select each of the sshd in a more controlled way so that I can specify which daemon to start and stop? (

Re: ImageMagick not working on Vista/Server 2008 64-bit

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 14:51, Brian Ford wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jun 20 03:36, Barry Kelly wrote: > > > I have a Windows Server 2008 64-bit install, and I've found that > > > ImageMagick cannot convert a simple JPG into a BMP, or resize a JPG. > > > > > > Steps to reprodu

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: > > > Yes, I thought of trying AttachConsole first.  It's a band-aid since > > > it will of course not work if there's just no parent console > > > > That can be dealt with, because AttachConsole reports back whether it > > did manage to attach, so if it doesn't, one can

Re: ImageMagick not working on Vista/Server 2008 64-bit

2009-06-26 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 20 03:36, Barry Kelly wrote: > > I have a Windows Server 2008 64-bit install, and I've found that > > ImageMagick cannot convert a simple JPG into a BMP, or resize a JPG. > > > > Steps to reproduce: > > > > * Start mspaint > > * Create 200x200p

Re: Help with using Bash / GCC installed but command not found

2009-06-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
MattyTheG wrote: Hello, I have been using Cygwin for about a year now, with no problems. Until one day I loaded it up and instead of the usual interface I had, it just said bash-3.2$, no username, or directory or anything, and none of the unix commands work. Anyway, I reinstalled Cygwin, and aft

Help with using Bash / GCC installed but command not found

2009-06-26 Thread MattyTheG
Hello, I have been using Cygwin for about a year now, with no problems. Until one day I loaded it up and instead of the usual interface I had, it just said bash-3.2$, no username, or directory or anything, and none of the unix commands work. Anyway, I reinstalled Cygwin, and after editing my PATH

RE: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

2009-06-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Mark J. Reed sent the following at Friday, June 26, 2009 10:14 AM >> cygstart has an option to set the working directory. > >cygstart -d /path/to/directory cmd > >should do the trick. Sorry I forgot to included in my previous email that cygstart can load Windows shortcuts. This might be useful to

Re: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty

2009-06-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Mark Harig wrote: > Do you have any recommendations about what the utility program /usr/bin/ascii > (in the package 'cygutils') should do? Since the Cygwin version of ascii doesn't appear to have a man page, I'm not sure what it "should" do. What it appears to do

Re: net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:21:41PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:17:57AM -0700, Gordon Fogus wrote: >>/var/log/sshd.log does not exist. > >How about the event log? And, also: VVV -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:17:57AM -0700, Gordon Fogus wrote: >/var/log/sshd.log does not exist. How about the event log? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe inf

Re: net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread Gordon Fogus
/var/log/sshd.log does not exist. --- gsfo...@gsfogus /var/log $ ls -a . apache exim messages setup.log.full wtmp .. apache2 lastlog setup.log squid --- On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:47 AM, David Christensen wrote: > Gordon Fogus wrote: >> gsfo...@gsfogus ~ >> $ net start sshd >> Syste

Re: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Harig
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:50:45 -0400 Mark J. Reed wrote: > Is is possible to display the upper 128 entries in the ASCII > table in mintty using the 'cygutils' application 'ascii'? The ASCII table doesn't have an upper 128 entries. Only codes 0 through 127 decimal are defined by ASCII. Once you hit

RE: net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
Gordon Fogus wrote: > gsfo...@gsfogus ~ > $ net start sshd > System error 2 has occurred. > The system cannot find the file specified. Are there any clues in /var/log/sshd.log? HTH, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:28:50AM -0700, Gordon Fogus wrote: >I installed cygwin for the second time. I installed all the packages >from ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.cs.vt.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2fcygwin%2f mirror. > >My session then ran as follows (after I configured the mkpasswrd thing >for my domain account

net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread Gordon Fogus
I installed cygwin for the second time. I installed all the packages from ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.cs.vt.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2fcygwin%2f mirror. My session then ran as follows (after I configured the mkpasswrd thing for my domain account): gsfo...@gsfogus ~ $ ssh-host-config -y *** Query: Overwrite

Re: Running 1.5 and 1.7 sshd in parallel

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 17:19, Federico Hernandez wrote: > Couldn't find anything on this: > > Would it be possible to run sshd 1.5 and 1.7 in parallel so one could > ssh into cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 on the same machine at the same time. Of > course on ssh would have to run on a different port. How would one > setup

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 17:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 26 11:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >It's an interesting idea, but rather tricky to implement. I assume > > >you will get an ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to attach to a co

Running 1.5 and 1.7 sshd in parallel

2009-06-26 Thread Federico Hernandez
Couldn't find anything on this: Would it be possible to run sshd 1.5 and 1.7 in parallel so one could ssh into cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 on the same machine at the same time. Of course on ssh would have to run on a different port. How would one setup this? THX. /Federico -- Problem reports: http

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 11:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >It's an interesting idea, but rather tricky to implement. I assume > >you will get an ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to attach to a console > >of another user, and a cygserver service

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 26 15:08, Julio Costa wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > Yes, I'm aware how this would work. ?What I mean is, it's *still* a >> > band-aid since in case of a fail to attach, you still have t

Re: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Harig
> > With this configuration, the upper 128 entries to the ASCII > table are displayed as follows (the #'s are replacements for > the gray box character that is displayed): That's because because bytes from 0x80 to 0xFF by themselves are invalid in UTF-8. Those codepoints need to be encoded as two

zip-3.0-10

2009-06-26 Thread Kostya Altukhov
Hi, Is there any particular reason why zip from cygwin-1.7 does not have .exe extension anymore? Kostya -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: Cygwin and C socket

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 07:47, lrc wrote: > if ((status = getaddrinfo(argv[1], NULL, &hints, &res)) != 0) { getaddrinfo isn't available in Cygwin 1.5.25, but will be available in Cygwin 1.7. See http://cygwin.com/#beta-test Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cyg

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 15:08, Julio Costa wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Yes, I'm aware how this would work.  What I mean is, it's *still* a > > band-aid since in case of a fail to attach, you still have to alloc > > a console and you're back to the original problem.  What w

Re: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty

2009-06-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Mark Harig wrote: > Is is possible to display the upper 128 entries in the ASCII > table in mintty using the 'cygutils' application 'ascii'? The ASCII table doesn't have an upper 128 entries. Only codes 0 through 127 decimal are defined by ASCII. Once you hit 128

Cygwin and C socket

2009-06-26 Thread lrc
Hello, I am trying to build a PoC around calling a RESTFul service from a C program. I have installed the eclipse CDT and Cygwin and can build and run a hello world C exe. The next test is to use the socket stuff to connect to a URL, however whe I try to compile my code (taken from another site)

Re: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

2009-06-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
I wrote: >>cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe >> >>or, if you have that in your $PATH, just >> >>cygstart `which cmd` As it turns out, just cygstart cmd works on both my installations at work (one 1.5 and one 1.7, both on Vista); on the PC at home (1.7 on XP) I had to specify the full

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Julio Costa
Hi, On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 26 13:41, Andy Koppe wrote: >> 2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: >> >> Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by >> >> trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if >> >> any. When I atte

Fwd: undefined reference

2009-06-26 Thread Winderson Martins de Souza
Hello, I'm trying to compile gettext on cygwin, but I'm getting an undefined reference error, could anyone help?? I'm running configure without shared library, as with it I was getting another undefined error, then I'm stuck here rts/branches/cygwin-1.5/devel/gettext/gettext-0.17-2/build/gettext-t

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 13:41, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: > >> Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by > >> trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if > >> any. When I attempted that in MinTTY, though, I couldn't make it work. > > > > Yes

Fwd: undefined reference

2009-06-26 Thread Winderson Martins de Souza
Hello, I'm trying to compile gettext on cygwin, but I'm getting an undefined reference error, could anyone help?? I'm running configure without shared library, as with it I was getting another undefined error, then I'm stuck here rts/branches/cygwin-1.5/devel/gettext/gettext-0.17-2/build/gettext-t

RE: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

2009-06-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Mark J. Reed sent the following at Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:15 PM >cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe > >or, if you have that in your $PATH, just > >cygstart `which cmd` cygstart has an option to set the working directory. $ cygstart --help [snip] Directory options -d, --director

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: >> Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by >> trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if >> any. When I attempted that in MinTTY, though, I couldn't make it work. > > Yes, I thought of trying AttachConsole first.  It'

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 13:03, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: > > And what's really bad is that the console shows up in the taskbar. > > Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by > trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if > any. When I attem

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: >> The proper, yet probably completely impractical solution: compile >> Cygwin programs for the GUI subsystem instead of the console one and >> attach to the parent process' console, if any, with explicit calls at >> program startup. POSIX programs don't use the Win32 co

Re: ImageMagick not working on Vista/Server 2008 64-bit

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 03:36, Barry Kelly wrote: > I have a Windows Server 2008 64-bit install, and I've found that > ImageMagick cannot convert a simple JPG into a BMP, or resize a JPG. > > Steps to reproduce: > > * Start mspaint > * Create 200x200px white image > * Save as test.jpg > * Try this command: 'co

Re: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

2009-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dave Korn: >>> Problem: I want to be able to launch a CMD.EXE window starting in a >>> particular >>> directory from my cygwin bash window. >> Just type "start" and press return. > I get "bash: start: command not found." in 1.7. Doh, I'm

Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup-1.7.exe minor display error

2009-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 25 13:08, Mark Harig wrote: >> Steps to reproduce the error: >> >> 1. Start setup-1.7.exe. Click on 'Next >' button until the >>'Select Packages' dialog window is displayed. >> >> 2. By default, setup displays the Select Packages window >>maximized. Click

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 10:39, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen > > The issue will definitely not be fixed in RTM.  Oh well. > > :( > > > We will have > > to find a W7 workaround for our method of creating a hidden console.  I > > have asked Microsoft to provide us with a workaround but I have no

Re: Problem with git for SMB mounted repo's: works on cygwin 1.5, does not work on cygwin 1.7.

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 03:25, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: > /cygdrive/w/wigit>git status > fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git > /cygdrive/w/wigit>ls -l > total 7168 >   0 drwx-- 3     0 Jun 26 02:38 ./ >   0 drwxrwxrwx 1     0 Jun 26 02:22 ../

Re: /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory

2009-06-26 Thread Leonid Krashenko
Well, it worked, thank you very much! Windows recognized the USB adapter as COM3, so I've simply used /dev/ttyS2 device (and also tuned it with stty command). "Corinna Vinschen" ???/ ? ?: news:20090625082902.gm7...@calimero.vinschen.de... > On Jun 24 20:33, Matthia

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen > The issue will definitely not be fixed in RTM.  Oh well. :( > We will have > to find a W7 workaround for our method of creating a hidden console.  I > have asked Microsoft to provide us with a workaround but I have no > really big hope that they can or will do it.  An

Re: R: build failure of Octave 3.2.0 on cygwin

2009-06-26 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello Marco Thank you for your reply and important infomation. > arpack-96-1 > ftgl-2.1.3~rc5-1 > qrupdate-1.0-2 > > but these are already on my site, > http://matzeri.altervista.org/ > I will try without FLTK backend. Regards Tatsuro --- Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Hi Tatsuro, >

Re: Problem with mintty-0.4.1-1 and orpie

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> There is, but it isn't too serious: with NumLock off, Enter and the > operator keys on the numpad don't work in orpie when running in xterm > or mintty. That's because it doesn't seek to support the "application > keypad mode" keycodes. (But users will probably have NumLock on anyway > if they're

Re: Problem with mintty-0.4.1-1 and orpie

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Hey!  I'm glad to know that someone else is using orpie.  I like it, which > > is > > why I packaged it for Cygwin, but I thought I might be the only one. > > I wasn't aware of it, but it does look rather good, with a pleasingly > high geek factor. Once you go RPN, you'll never go back. >

Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup-1.7.exe minor display error

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 25 13:08, Mark Harig wrote: > Steps to reproduce the error: > > 1. Start setup-1.7.exe. Click on 'Next >' button until the >'Select Packages' dialog window is displayed. > > 2. By default, setup displays the Select Packages window >maximized. Click on the 'Restore Down' button in t

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 13 19:34, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/5/8 Corinna Vinschen: > > Unfortunately I got the reply that this issue cannot be addressed this > > time but MSFT will consider addressing the issue in a future version of > > Windows. > > Forgot to say: thanks for the update. > > > This is really bad. >