[OT] Re: ID command returns mkgroup

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/12/2009 06:47 PM, Dave Korn wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 11/12/2009 09:14 AM, dexter_mich...@emc wrote: Should my ID output be the same as when I log into a unix server here, or would it be different? My cygwin is running on a Windows >>

1.7 file permissions changes

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Benson
(I'm reposting this message since Yahoo decided to leave out line breaks. Sorry for unintentionally sending HTML mail.) I have a batch of Unix-based Perl scripts that I use for CD ripping. They use a queue-based approach. One process reads discs, another process encodes and tags them, and a thir

Re: ID command returns mkgroup

2009-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/12/2009 06:47 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/12/2009 09:14 AM, dexter_mich...@emc wrote: Should my ID output be the same as when I log into a unix server here, or would it be different? My cygwin is running on a Windows workstation so maybe it is grabbing my AD gro

Re: Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package itself

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
Karl M wrote: >> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:46:12 -0800 >> Currently when upgrading the base 'cygwin' package, the installer only warns >> you midway through the installation after some files have been >> removed/replaced. >> >> If you have other cygwin processes running, you may be left in an inco

Re: 1.7 setup questions...

2009-11-12 Thread Ralph Hempel
Dave Korn wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/12/2009 12:46 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: These three items are easily adressed with the command line options in setup, and by keeping track of the packages you have installed in a little text file. Without splitting hairs too finely, I don't actu

[OT] Re: No output on stdout

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
Federico Hernandez wrote: >>> Sounds like you may be missing dll. cygcheck yourprogram.exe might help. >> Thank you. We will do this. >> >> A gdb run provided some exit code which google and the mailing list >> archive suggested to be some dll problem. Now I know how to find out. > > Problem solv

Re: 1.7 setup questions...

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/12/2009 12:46 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: >> These three items are easily adressed with the command line options >> in setup, and by keeping track of the packages you have installed >> in a little text file. > > FYI /etc/setup/installed.db has a record of all the ins

Re: Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package itself

2009-11-12 Thread aputerguy
Jeremy Bopp writes: > BTW, this is not only a problem for the cygwin package. Literally any > package could have files which are in use at the time of replacement. > So any solution would need to take that into account. True but sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good enough... The 'cygwi

Re: ID command returns mkgroup

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/12/2009 09:14 AM, dexter_mich...@emc wrote: >> Should my ID output be the same as when I log into a unix server here, >> or would it be different? My cygwin is running on a Windows workstation >> so maybe it is grabbing my AD groups as opposed to my NIS groups. >

Re: No output on stdout

2009-11-12 Thread Federico Hernandez
>> Sounds like you may be missing dll.  cygcheck yourprogram.exe might help. > > Thank you. We will do this. > > A gdb run provided some exit code which google and the mailing list > archive suggested to be some dll problem. Now I know how to find out. Problem solved. We have discovered the missin

RE: Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package itself

2009-11-12 Thread Karl M
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:46:12 -0800 > Subject: Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package > itself > > > Currently when upgrading the base 'cygwin' package, the installer only warns > you midway through the installation after some files have been > removed/replaced. >

Re: Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package itself

2009-11-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
aputerguy wrote: > Currently when upgrading the base 'cygwin' package, the installer only warns > you midway through the installation after some files have been > removed/replaced. > > If you have other cygwin processes running, you may be left in an incomplete > state where you can't or don't wan

Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package itself

2009-11-12 Thread aputerguy
Currently when upgrading the base 'cygwin' package, the installer only warns you midway through the installation after some files have been removed/replaced. If you have other cygwin processes running, you may be left in an incomplete state where you can't or don't want to kill the other cygwin p

Re: No output on stdout

2009-11-12 Thread Federico Hernandez
> Sounds like you may be missing dll.  cygcheck yourprogram.exe might help. Thank you. We will do this. A gdb run provided some exit code which google and the mailing list archive suggested to be some dll problem. Now I know how to find out. Greetings, Federico -- Problem reports: http://

Re: No output on stdout

2009-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:01:05PM +0100, Federico Hernandez wrote: >I have a command line application that does not have any output on >stdout on one computer (WinXP SP2) but works fine and doing output on >stdout on other computers (WinXP SP2 and SP3, Win7). Sounds like you may be missing dll.

No output on stdout

2009-11-12 Thread Federico Hernandez
Hi I have a command line application that does not have any output on stdout on one computer (WinXP SP2) but works fine and doing output on stdout on other computers (WinXP SP2 and SP3, Win7). This is on cygwin 1.5. The application is compiled with g++ 4.3.2-2. We have reinstalled cygwin from scr

Re: 1.7 setup questions...

2009-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/12/2009 12:46 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: These three items are easily adressed with the command line options in setup, and by keeping track of the packages you have installed in a little text file. FYI /etc/setup/installed.db has a record of all the installed packages. -- Larry Hall

1.7 file permissions changes

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Benson
I have a batch of Unix-based Perl scripts that I use for CD ripping. They use a queue-based approach. One process reads discs, another process encodes and tags them, and a third process uploads them to a file server. I've been running this on Cygwin for several years. I used cdda2wav to read dat

Re: 1.7 setup questions...

2009-11-12 Thread Ralph Hempel
Linda Walsh wrote: 1) why does it re-ask me for my proxy and not remember my server choice each time I enter setup. 2) why does it maximize each time I enter the package choice? Ouch! hard on the eyes to have my entire screen filled with white! 3). How do I make the type larger? 6pt font is

Re: 1.7 setup questions...

2009-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:54:48AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >1) why does it re-ask me for my proxy and not remember my server choice >each time I enter setup. WJFFM. >2) why does it maximize each time I enter the package choice? Ouch! hard >on the eyes to have my entire screen filled with whit

Re: ID command returns mkgroup

2009-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/12/2009 09:14 AM, dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Well I am not really sure exactly what I should be seeing. I think the command I ran was incorrect, also I had stopped the command from completing half way through. Now if I look at me /etc/groups file there appears to be an entry for every

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-12 Thread Eliot Moss
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 12 10:31, Eliot Moss wrote: I think that Corinna (et al.?) thought this was more likely to be a problem in rsync introduce by its relatively recent revision from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. Me? No, I never said that. Just my possibly mistaken impression then. In any case,

Re: cygwin-64bit

2009-11-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 12 03:54, Linda Walsh wrote: I am having my first experiences on 64-bit windows and noticed that 32-bit processes, more so than 64-bit user processes are virtualized are not able to access or see parts of the machine. This is especially noticeable in the registry.

1.7 setup questions...

2009-11-12 Thread Linda Walsh
1) why does it re-ask me for my proxy and not remember my server choice each time I enter setup. 2) why does it maximize each time I enter the package choice? Ouch! hard on the eyes to have my entire screen filled with white! 3). How do I make the type larger? 6pt font is a bit small -- I kno

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 12 10:31, Eliot Moss wrote: > I think that Corinna (et al.?) thought this was more likely to > be a problem in rsync introduce by its relatively recent > revision from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. Me? No, I never said that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding C

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-12 Thread Eliot Moss
Eliot Moss wrote: I am getting this output when trying to rsync to any of several systems. I have RSYNC_RSH set to use ssh, and the ssh commands work just fine. This smells like some kind of non-matching library issue to me ... rsync: Failed to dup/close: Bad file descriptor (9) rsync error: err

rsync pull problem and possible solution

2009-11-12 Thread grkuntzmd
I am still trying to work this out. It is well known that cygwin rsync hangs on pulling from Microsoft Windows (but works when pushing). I am trying to find some way to reverse the process: have the remote server PUSH instead of having the local server PULL. The situation is as follows: I ha

Re: cygwin-64bit

2009-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 12 03:54, Linda Walsh wrote: > I am having my first experiences on 64-bit windows and noticed that 32-bit > processes, more so than 64-bit user processes are virtualized are not able > to access or see parts of the machine. This is especially noticeable in the > registry. Did you notice th

RE: ID command returns mkgroup

2009-11-12 Thread Dexter_Michael
Well I am not really sure exactly what I should be seeing. I think the command I ran was incorrect, also I had stopped the command from completing half way through. Now if I look at me /etc/groups file there appears to be an entry for every single group in the company but it stops at G - this mus

cygwin-64bit

2009-11-12 Thread Linda Walsh
I am having my first experiences on 64-bit windows and noticed that 32-bit processes, more so than 64-bit user processes are virtualized are not able to access or see parts of the machine. This is especially noticeable in the registry. This means that if one has been using cygwin tools to ass