Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

2010-06-21 Thread Ken
>> When /etc/group is a symlink to a valid and correctly formatted file >> containing the group information elsewhere on the system (e.g., >> /etc/group -> /etc/_group), 'id -ng' will always return 'mkgroup' as >> the users group. >> >> However, if I remove the /etc/group symlink and rename /etc/_

Re: Fw: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. OK, I didn't know that. I initially tried running the

Re: Need swig 1.3.40 for Subversion

2010-06-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 14:04 -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > It seems that swig-1.3.38 has a bug that produces invalid Python > bindings with Python 2.6. I first hit this when building > subversion-1.6.11-2 for Python 2.6, but I dismissed the test case > failures at the time. > > Today I built s

Re: Question...has this been raised before? why domain\user instead of domain/user?

2010-06-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: Isn't this inconsistent? Any plans to fix this? --- Given the difficulting in building the cygin executable, I doubt it. Most projects, I get the tarball, or check it out. Do a configure, or run the bootstrap.sh/autogen.sh script, then configure, then make --

Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-21 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays an appropriately witty saying, I then see the quote from Star Trek surface. That's okay I created a script to do so based on one used by my Linux system. However this time when I invoked one using the bash as a command w

Re: Question...has this been raised before? why domain\user instead of domain/user?

2010-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/21/2010 03:26 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Consistent with unix names, where we use forward slash > instead of backslash (both in file and registry names), > > why do I get an error when I try to use /user as a user arg when > \\user is allows? Because \\user is NOT a file name, but a user name

Question...has this been raised before? why domain\user instead of domain/user?

2010-06-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Consistent with unix names, where we use forward slash instead of backslash (both in file and registry names), why do I get an error when I try to use /user as a user arg when \\user is allows? Should I get a warning about using a Windows style identifier by using backslash? I mean there's be

Bug report / Cygwin prob...

2010-06-21 Thread Linda Walsh
I have two accounts on my client machine. One is m...@workstation, the other is m...@domain. They are both me and I need to have them be able access each other's files mostly transparently. As a result, in windows, I setup a group (megroup) that contains both me and me! (@workstation/@domai

Need swig 1.3.40 for Subversion

2010-06-21 Thread David Rothenberger
It seems that swig-1.3.38 has a bug that produces invalid Python bindings with Python 2.6. I first hit this when building subversion-1.6.11-2 for Python 2.6, but I dismissed the test case failures at the time. Today I built subversion-1.6.12-1 and took the time to investigate. The Python bindings

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, perl *** fatal error TP_NUM_W_BUFS too smal

2010-06-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:44:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:25:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:51:37AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:49:09AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17

Fw: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Oren Cheyette
** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. I initially tried running the service under my own account (as suggested in the faq) with my username

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Oren Cheyette
Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. I initially tried running the service under my own account (as suggested in the faq) with my username & password entered at prompts from cron-config. No luck. Th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: asciidoc-8.5.3-2

2010-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
Now that python 2.6 is current, the experimental asciidoc 8.5.3-2 has been promoted to current. asciidoc 8.5.3-1 is available as a previous version if you downgrade to python 2.5. NEWS: = This is a refresh build against the newer python. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package : python-2.6.5-2

2010-06-21 Thread Jason Tishler
*** Attention Cygwin Python module package maintainers: *** *** Cygwin has migrated from Python 2.5 to 2.6. *** *** Please build, test, and release your packages ASAP. *** New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.6.5-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirr

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, perl *** fatal error TP_NUM_W_BUFS too smal

2010-06-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:25:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:51:37AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:49:09AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>>On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 18:31 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Do you have a test case?

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/21/2010 11:31 AM, Oren Cheyette wrote: I am having difficulty getting cron tasks to recognize network share paths. Running cygwin dll version 1.7.3, I have a system fstab (/etc/fstab) mounting a network share. Seems to work fine from an interactive shell. cron has been installed with cron-co

LANG=ru_RU.cp1251, but binutils use UTF-8.

2010-06-21 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
I globally set LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 for Russian Windows. All command work as expected (from coreutils, svn, etc.). But objdump, nm, objcopy use UTF-8 instead recode to cp1251: $ objdump --help | head -n 2 Рспользование: objdump <опции> <файл(С‹)> Отображает РёРЅС„

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

2010-06-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 21:26, kstmp...@comcast.net wrote: > When /etc/group is a symlink to a valid and correctly formatted file > containing the group information elsewhere on the system (e.g., > /etc/group -> /etc/_group), 'id -ng' will always return 'mkgroup' as > the users group. > > However, if I remove t