Re: Can't install cygwin, but can visit the URL

2012-01-16 Thread Pan ruochen
Yes, I do. So it is the cause? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Johan van den Berg wrote: > > Do you have a proxy configuration in your browser? > > Regards > Johan -- Best Regards, Pan Ruochen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: Can't install cygwin, but can visit the URL

2012-01-16 Thread Johan van den Berg
On 17 Jan 2012, at 9:13 AM, Pan ruochen wrote: > Hi All, > > I can't install cygwin on my laptop. The setup binary can't find any > available download site however I can open the URL http://cygwin.com > in my browser. > And I can open any mirror site in the browser and download any file as well.

Can't install cygwin, but can visit the URL

2012-01-16 Thread Pan ruochen
Hi All, I can't install cygwin on my laptop. The setup binary can't find any available download site however I can open the URL http://cygwin.com in my browser. And I can open any mirror site in the browser and download any file as well. So what should be the cause of this problem? BTW, I am a VP

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: > Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in > > the new terminal. > > > > As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home > > directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.o

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Jon Hughes
Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in > the new terminal. > > As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home > directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.out, in which > the word "out" appeared on a few

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: > Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > mintty -e tail -f foo & > > > > The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent > > with those I write for other terminals. > > > > HTH, > > Gary > > > > > > This is very close, but I need it to s

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Jon Hughes
Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > mintty -e tail -f foo & > > The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent > with those I write for other terminals. > > HTH, > Gary > > This is very close, but I need it to start in ANSI mode (--login -i seems to do it in cygwin.b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xmlto-0.0.25-1, docbook-xsl-1.76.1-2

2012-01-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** docbook-xsl-1.76.1-2 *** xmlto-0.0.25-1 xmlto is a shell-script tool for converting XML files to various formats. At the moment it supports conversion from docbook, xhtml1 and fo format to various output formats. This upd

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: source-highlight-3.1.6-1

2012-01-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** source-highlight-3.1.6-1 *** libsource-highlight4-3.1.6-1 *** libsource-highlight-common-3.1.6-1 *** libsource-highlight-devel-3.1.6-1 GNU Source-highlight is a utility which creates documents with syntax-highlighting from

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.393-1

2012-01-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** vim-7.3.393-1 *** vim-common-7.3.393-1 *** xxd-7.3.393-1 *** gvim-7.3.393-1 Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set and a choice of t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: boost-1.48.0-1

2012-01-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** libboost1.48-1.48.0-1 *** libboost_python1.48-1.48.0-1 *** libboost-devel-1.48.0-1 Boost provides a large collection of peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. This is an update to the latest u

Re: "Bad address" error with redirection (stdout and stderr) in background process

2012-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 06:47:51AM +, Heiko Elger wrote: >Dave Korn gmail.com> writes: > >> >> looks like there was a second snapshot later the same day that replaced the >> one you had installed. > >That's it! Thanks a lot .. >I never see a snapshot released twice a day It happens all of

Re: "Bad address" error with redirection (stdout and stderr) in background process

2012-01-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16/01/2012 06:47, Heiko Elger wrote: > Dave Korn gmail.com> writes: > >> looks like there was a second snapshot later the same day that replaced the >> one you had installed. > > That's it! Thanks a lot .. > I never see a snapshot released twice a day > > Just one question: > How can I f

Re: Problem with user identity reported by windows native whoami on ssh

2012-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 16 15:19, Jan Duzinkiewicz wrote: > I recently tried to use Cygwin's sshd and encountered a problem - > every command sent by ssh over a channel different than that created > after initial logon (password authentication) is executed with sshd > service identity (local cyg_server_ instead of

Problem with user identity reported by windows native whoami on ssh

2012-01-16 Thread Jan Duzinkiewicz
I recently tried to use Cygwin's sshd and encountered a problem - every command sent by ssh over a channel different than that created after initial logon (password authentication) is executed with sshd service identity (local cyg_server_ instead of the user I logged with. A code says a thousands w

Re: "Bad address" error with redirection (stdout and stderr) in background process

2012-01-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Heiko Elger! >> looks like there was a second snapshot later the same day that replaced the >> one you had installed. > That's it! Thanks a lot .. > I never see a snapshot released twice a day > Just one question: > How can I figure out whether a snapshot is released more than on

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcsh-6.18.00-1

2012-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the tcsh package to 6.18.00-1. This is an upstream version update. The Cygwin version is build from the 6.18.00 sources as released two days ago, plus all required upstream bug fixes up to today. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygw

Re: system() not working outside of Cygwin environment

2012-01-16 Thread Yuri Gribov
Christopher, > So, if /bin/sh is not available then system() won't work. Thank you, that's precisely what I needed (you could just reply "man system", that would be enough). > Also note that if you are planning on making a program which is distributed > independent of Cygwin FYI I am installin