Re: /usr/bin/cron-config can render a Win2K3 box unusable

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 03:44 PM 2/16/2010, Patrick Rynhart wrote: >> I'm on Windows Server 2003 and carefully read through >> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-57.README prior to configuring cron. >> The guide discusses how a privileged user account is required in order >> to run cron. The scr

Re: /usr/bin/cron-config can render a Win2K3 box unusable

2010-02-16 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 03:44 PM 2/16/2010, Patrick Rynhart wrote: I'm on Windows Server 2003 and carefully read through /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-57.README prior to configuring cron. The guide discusses how a privileged user account is required in order to run cron. The script /usr/bin/cron-config gives you t

Re: NFS Server "cannot change time on" error

2010-02-16 Thread Tom Britton
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:24:02PM +, Tom Britton wrote: > >Hi > >I'm trying to set up the Cygwin NFS Server. My problem is that non-root > >users > >on a Unix box get a "cannot change time on ..." error when creating files on > >a > >NFS share.

Re: NFS Server "cannot change time on" error

2010-02-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:24:02PM +, Tom Britton wrote: >Hi >I'm trying to set up the Cygwin NFS Server. My problem is that non-root users >on a Unix box get a "cannot change time on ..." error when creating files on a >NFS share. Root users do not get this message. > >The (a) problem appe

NFS Server "cannot change time on" error

2010-02-16 Thread Tom Britton
Hi I'm trying to set up the Cygwin NFS Server. My problem is that non-root users on a Unix box get a "cannot change time on ..." error when creating files on a NFS share. Root users do not get this message. The (a) problem appears to have something to do with setuid permission (see event Viewe

Re: 1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte

2010-02-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/16/2010 03:04 PM, Radu Berinde wrote: It's unfortunate that this problem hasn't been fixed and Cygwin/X 1.7 is now part of the stable distribution. It's even more unfortunate that there's no way (none I could find anyway) to install the older version which worked for me. Please don't cc

/usr/bin/cron-config can render a Win2K3 box unusable

2010-02-16 Thread Patrick Rynhart
I'm on Windows Server 2003 and carefully read through /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-57.README prior to configuring cron. The guide discusses how a privileged user account is required in order to run cron. The script /usr/bin/cron-config gives you the option of creating a user account on behalf (

Re: AddAccessAllowedAce(, owner) failed: 1337

2010-02-16 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi Larry, Thanks for your quick response. - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:13 AM Subject: Re: AddAccessAllowedAce(, owner) failed: 1337 On 02/16/2010 01:20 AM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Again no output from the 1.7 cygcheck Is th

Re: 1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte

2010-02-16 Thread Radu Berinde
It's unfortunate that this problem hasn't been fixed and Cygwin/X 1.7 is now part of the stable distribution. It's even more unfortunate that there's no way (none I could find anyway) to install the older version which worked for me. Radu On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Radu Berinde wrote: > I

Re: Mirroring cygwin

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16/02/2010 12:30, Jason Pyeron wrote: >>> http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html but it seems >>> none of the entries in the http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst >> contain an rsync entry. >> >> See here: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html, not mirrors.lst >> as linked from that page;

Re: AddAccessAllowedAce(, owner) failed: 1337

2010-02-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/16/2010 01:20 AM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Again no output from the 1.7 cygcheck Is the cygwin1.dll from 1.5 still in memory and being accessed by the cygcheck in 1.7 when I renamed it? Am I correct in saying that I am not getting any output from the cygcheck from 1.7? How do you sugge

Workaround for installing Perl module DateTime::Locale

2010-02-16 Thread Nathan Vonnahme
So, I recently upgraded my Cygwin setup, and broke a Perl script I use which uses a lot of CPAN modules. Here are the relevant version details: setup.exe version 2.682 This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int /usr/bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9402 The

Rsync still appending exe extension

2010-02-16 Thread John Langenbach
Hi list, This is a follow up to ... http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00106.html ... describing a recent bug where rsync on cygwin would add a .exe extension to executable files, making the copy different to the original. It appears this may have been "fixed" but I've found a case where

Re: bash slow to get prompt

2010-02-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/16/2010 07:06 AM, lanco wrote: Hi, does anyone encountered this problem during its experience with cygwin 1.5? Commands in bash (ls, cd, awk, ncftp, sed, ...) appears executed correctly but prompt get many seconds to come back to life. This block u from useful execution of scripts. All wor

Re: Bug in setup.exe

2010-02-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:52:31AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 15 06:44, Jan Obrestad wrote: >>I have discovered a bug in setup.exe version 2.682. >> >>I tried installing cygwin 1.7.1 on windows 7 x64. It failed with the >>error message: >> >>Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in us

Re: select() and named pipes

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:16:55PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:20:55AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 08:54:27PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> I just checked in YA in my series of attempts to get this working right. > >> It

RE: Mirroring cygwin

2010-02-16 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:50 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mirroring cygwin > > On 16/02/2010 01:11, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > Followed, > http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html but no > > rsync friendly entries?

Re: Re[2]: Slow fork issue - Win x64

2010-02-16 Thread Jarkko Häkkinen
I'm getting rather similar results on my Cygwin 1.7.1, Windows 7 as evidenced by the figures below. Upgraded from a dual core Windows XP to a quad core i7 Windows 7 causing my cygwin performance to plummet. Even the bash auto-completion is so annoyingly sluggish that it makes the shell virtually u

bash slow to get prompt

2010-02-16 Thread lanco
Hi, does anyone encountered this problem during its experience with cygwin 1.5? Commands in bash (ls, cd, awk, ncftp, sed, ...) appears executed correctly but prompt get many seconds to come back to life. This block us from useful execution of scripts. All worked correctly, maybe untill some ga

Re: [gcc] FYI, libffi FAILs with cygwin snapshot 20100205, 20100207 & 20100210...

2010-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 15 20:38, Marco Atzeri wrote: > --- Lun 15/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > > Probably I found the culprit.  I introduced a bug in vfprintf when I > > added thousands separator printing.  The result of the bug is that > > float or double values got an extra decimal point.  The float valu

Re: Bug in setup.exe

2010-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 15 06:44, Jan Obrestad wrote: > I have discovered a bug in setup.exe version 2.682. > > I tried installing cygwin 1.7.1 on windows 7 x64. > It failed with the error message: > > Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use. > > Which was a bit weird since the directory didn't exist yet