Re: database related

2013-03-22 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
On 20/03/13 06:31, Wynfield Henman wrote: The database MariaDB looks good. It does have a windows version available, but I, like others would prefer to learn it on a Posix system like cygwin if at all possible. The only information I could find matching MariaDB and cygwin as at least a couple

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
Yes, that bugs my for quite some time too, is -h for halt or hibernate? Now the -s is the same as the Windows shutdown.exe. The changes are really straight forward. -b could be the new short option for hibernate, doesn't interfere with the main linux shutdown options or the windows shutdown. Leavi

Re: single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:42:48PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 3/22/2013 4:03 PM, Alexander Stohr wrote: >... >>you rellly got what i was telling you? tons of mirrored data were >>rendered useless to the world due to the fact that a single initial or >>key element was missing from the we

Re: single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/22/2013 4:03 PM, Alexander Stohr wrote: ... you rellly got what i was telling you? tons of mirrored data were rendered useless to the world due to the fact that a single initial or key element was missing from the web. This was an announced outage of the site for a server upgrade. I expect

Re: Mailing list problems anyone?

2013-03-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/22/2013 3:37 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello, Cygwin mailman clams to be having problems with our site bouncing the messages (which caused a silent bail on me recently, which I did not realize until later -- for complete silence form the list). My site administrator as

single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-22 Thread Alexander Stohr
hello there, a few years ago the cygwin team announced a change: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00395.html start of this week i tried to only update a slightly older install of cygwin from the existing mirror system using my (renamed) setup-1.7.9-1.exe. unfortunately it turned ou

Mailing list problems anyone?

2013-03-22 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hello, Cygwin mailman clams to be having problems with our site bouncing the messages (which caused a silent bail on me recently, which I did not realize until later -- for complete silence form the list). My site administrator asserts that there is (and has never been) a CNAME for ncbi.nlm.nih.go

Problem with _WIN32 preprocessor symbol and libusb

2013-03-22 Thread Cliff Hones
The libusb package uses the presence of _WIN32 to determine which calling convention to use for the library externals - if _WIN32 is defined it uses WINAPI. [See /usr/include/libusb-1.0/libusb.h.] There is of course the question of whether it is/was sensible to use WINAPI when the package is comp

Re: perl (why 64int on 32int machine)

2013-03-22 Thread Reini Urban
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Wynfield Henman wrote: > I just downloaded and tried to build and install Perl's Database > Interface, DBI (yes the hard way, using Marefile.PL). > > Configure completed fine, but make fails with: > " make > gcc-4 -c-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g >

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 16:37, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2013/3/22 Thorsten Kampe: > >> > And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown? > >> I know it is used by server versions of Windows. When you request > >> shutdown/reboot you must enter a reason, and it is logged in system logs > >> (do

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/3/22 Thorsten Kampe: >> > And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown? >> I know it is used by server versions of Windows. When you request >> shutdown/reboot you must enter a reason, and it is logged in system logs >> (don't know exactly where, i guess you can find thi

Re: perl (why 64int on 32int machine)

2013-03-22 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Wynfield, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Wynfield Henman wrote: > I just downloaded and tried to build and install Perl's Database > Interface, DBI (yes the hard way, using Marefile.PL). > > Configure completed fine, but make fails with: > " make > gcc-4 -c-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STR

perl (why 64int on 32int machine)

2013-03-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
I just downloaded and tried to build and install Perl's Database Interface, DBI (yes the hard way, using Marefile.PL). Configure completed fine, but make fails with: " make gcc-4 -c-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3 -DVER

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Fedin Pavel (Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:53:39 +0400) > On 22.03.2013 11:44, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > I'm also considering adding possibility to customize the shutdown > > message: shutdown -rf 22:00 "Rebooting because of Windows Updates". > > Who knows... > > > > And does anybody ever use that reason th

Re: PostgreSQL not working from start

2013-03-22 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/22/2013 8:17 AM, Wynfield Henman wrote: This is apparently a common problem. I' m trying to install and get PostgreSQL up and running. Yes, CYGWIN, the environment variable is set to "server" and file/dir permissions are set for the user and have r/w permissions. No matter if I use: i

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 22.03.2013 11:44, Frank Fesevur wrote: I'm also considering adding possibility to customize the shutdown message: shutdown -rf 22:00 "Rebooting because of Windows Updates". Who knows... And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown? I know it is used by server versions o

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/3/21 Anthony Geoghegan: > Nice work, Frank. I took a quick look at the man pages. The only improvement > I'd suggest is that the first sentence of the Description for reboot.8 would > read better by adding "the user" like so: > > Change > "These programs allow to reboot, halt, poweroff, hibern

PostgreSQL not working from start

2013-03-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
This is apparently a common problem. I' m trying to install and get PostgreSQL up and running. Yes, CYGWIN, the environment variable is set to "server" and file/dir permissions are set for the user and have r/w permissions. No matter if I use: initdb or pg_ctl initdb -D $DBDIR -l $DB_ADMINLO