[64-bit] cron: Missing /etc/postinstall/cron.sh

2013-08-09 Thread David Rothenberger
I just tried running cron-config and got some errors about /var/cron missing. I noticed that there is no post-install script for cron, although there is for the 32-bit version. Is that intentional? -- David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org "It is easier to fight for principles than to live u

[64-bit] 1.7.23: mkpasswd broken

2013-08-09 Thread David Rothenberger
mkpasswd appears to be broken in 1.7.23. Every switch I try to give it, it response with "unknown switch -- -h" (or whatever switch I used). The mkpasswd from the 2013-07-29 snapshot is working fine. mkgroup is also fine. The 32-bit mkpasswd is also fine. -- David Rothenberger daver...@ac

Re: Source a .bat file from bash

2013-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:42:38PM +, Saurabh T wrote: >Is there a way to source a .bat file from bash and have the paths and other >environment variables set in it apply in cygwin? Nope. Sorry. You could, remembering that Cygwin is supposed to be a Linux/UNIX experience for Windows, use th

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/08/2013 2:00 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 08/08/2013 1:42 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/5/2013 11:29 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 05/08/2013 11:00 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/3/2013 3:05 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/08/2013 8:07 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/08/2013 7:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: O

Whois for Cygwin64

2013-08-09 Thread Gary T. Giesen
It looks like a package for whois (gnu whois) hasn't yet been compiled for Cygwin64. I downloaded the source package for it and once I had all the dependencies taken care of it compiled nicely with cygports (--64). Just wondering if there's something else holding up the package or it just hasn'

Source a .bat file from bash

2013-08-09 Thread Saurabh T
Is there a way to source a .bat file from bash and have the paths and other environment variables set in it apply in cygwin? For example $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin $ cat file.bat set path=%path%;C:\windows\something set x=somevar $ some_command file.bat $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/

Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2013-08-09 Thread Steven Penny
Because of this dependency line man groff perl A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While Perl is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base install. Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the base 32-bit Cygwin install

Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Allen
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/8/2013 05:08, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> >> Though, I fail to see, how Cygwin telnet is different from, say PuTTY. Or >> native Windows telnet. > > > Windows 8 doesn't come with telnet.exe installed by default, and when you > install it fr

Re: Problems with lftp's mirror function

2013-08-09 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 9 August 2013 02:26, Achim Gratz wrote: > Chris Sutcliffe writes: >> Using the current lftp in the distribution and the latest updates I've >> found that lftp's mirror function hangs. > > Could you be more specific on what error it encounters? I use lftp > mirroring fairly extensively (albeit o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.8.10-1

2013-08-09 Thread marco atzeri
Version mc-4.8.10-1 of Midnight Commander has been uploaded for cygwin CHANGES This is a upstream bugfix version For the full upstream changes https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.10 https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/TitleIndex DESCRIPTION GNU Midnight Commander is a visual f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.23

2013-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.23. === ABOUT THE 64 BIT RELEASE === This is only the second official Cygwin releas

Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage

2013-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 05:53, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 8 August 2013 17:07, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 08/08/2013 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > >> On Aug 8 17:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>> > >>> On Aug 8 09:48, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > Hi all, > > (no, that's not a typo in the