include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and use HTTPS

2012-09-25 Thread Bry8 Star
Hello, Please include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest code of "setup.exe" file, on webpage next to "setup.exe" download url-link. so we know for sure, if we have a correct file or not, and someone in middle (MITM) has not changed it. Windows users prefer to verify files rather with sha1/md5 etc, than using a

Re: associating volume labels with drive letters

2012-09-25 Thread Mark O'Keefe
On 14/09/2012, at 12:35 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen > On Jul 29 15:34, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: > Can you answer the following question: > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the corresponding > volume has been mounted into the Cygwi

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/09/2012 5:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: [Please don't top-post.] On 9/25/2012 2:10 PM, Wynfield Henman wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/25/2012 11:41 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade a set of existing cygwin packages, and texlive suddenly w

ssh-host-config seg fault on Vista

2012-09-25 Thread Nate Gelbard
Hello, I have recently setup cygwin sshd on Win7, Win2k3, and Win2k8 no issue. Run setup, add sshd package, install. Run cygterm as Administrator, ssh-host-config, setup ssh keys. However installing cygwin sshd on Vista is running into the following problem: ** Info: Generating /etc/ssh_host_key

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-25 Thread Ken Brown
[Please don't top-post.] On 9/25/2012 2:10 PM, Wynfield Henman wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/25/2012 11:41 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade a set of existing cygwin packages, and texlive suddenly wants to install itself, apparently due to

Re: No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?

2012-09-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Matt Sexton wrote: Hello, I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory. Both processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process initialize There's a cygwin process that you have to have runn

Re: Attn: base-files maintainer? [Was: sshd from user account - env issues]

2012-09-25 Thread jafa
On 9/19/2012 10:45 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 9/19/2012 1:41 PM, jafa wrote: >> Running SSHD from the user account like this basically works - I can ssh >> into the machine, but the env vars are not quite right. >> >> For example, local bash: >> TEMP=/tmp >> temp=C:\Users\build\AppData\Local\Te

Re: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline

2012-09-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Hazel wrote: > What is it that's so hard to understand?. > > C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe Can not execute native functions. > > This is on *XP Pro 32bit* as already stated. Then you have an issue that is not related to Cygwin even though the issue may have begun co

RE: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline

2012-09-25 Thread Hazel
What is it that's so hard to understand?. C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe Can not execute native functions. This is on *XP Pro 32bit* as already stated. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-corrupted-windows-commandline-tp92938p93051.html Sent from the Cygw

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-25 Thread Wynfield Henman
I don't agree. The solution should not be to install an unnecessary package and waste space and complicate by having to check order in the PATH variable. It would be better that a.) installation scripts check for the existence of the necessary commands first and not brute force the installation o

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/25/2012 11:41 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade a set of existing cygwin packages, and texlive suddenly wants to install itself, apparently due to a new dependency from gnuplot. Is this really necessary? This dependency is created by cygport. It's of course up to the

Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade a set of existing cygwin packages, and texlive suddenly wants to install itself, apparently due to a new dependency from gnuplot. Is this really necessary? Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/f

Re: mintty: Ctrl-Q does not work?

2012-09-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/09/2012 6:05 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: I type cat [some long ascii-file] then Ctrl-S (output stops), then Ctrl-Q (terminal hangs, can only be terminated by closing the window). Using minty 1.1.2 and 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin Can anybody reproduce this? Confirm

Re: mintty: Ctrl-Q does not work?

2012-09-25 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 25.09.2012 12:05, Helmut Karlowski wrote: I type cat [some long ascii-file] then Ctrl-S (output stops), then Ctrl-Q (terminal hangs, can only be terminated by closing the window). Using minty 1.1.2 and 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin Can anybody reproduce this? Yes, and

RE: Autocompletion of shell variables

2012-09-25 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Jovan Grbic wrote: > I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of > shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable > name of standard linux tool. > > For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. When i try > ssh $SER > autocomplete does

Re: Autocompletion of shell variables

2012-09-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Jovan Grbic wrote: > Hello, > > I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of > shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable > name of standard linux tool. > > For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. Wh

Autocompletion of shell variables

2012-09-25 Thread Jovan Grbic
Hello, I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable name of standard linux tool. For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. When i try ssh $SER autocomplete does not work, but with

mintty: Ctrl-Q does not work?

2012-09-25 Thread Helmut Karlowski
I type cat [some long ascii-file] then Ctrl-S (output stops), then Ctrl-Q (terminal hangs, can only be terminated by closing the window). Using minty 1.1.2 and 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin Can anybody reproduce this? -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxml2-2.8.0-1, libxslt-1.1.27-1

2012-09-25 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Yaakov, On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: > > *** libxml2-2.8.0-1 > *** libxml2-devel-2.8.0-1 > *** libxml2-doc-2.8.0-1 > *** libxslt-1.1.27-1 > *** libxslt-devel-1.1.27-1 > *** libxslt-doc-1.1.27-1