Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space

2007-01-10 Thread Fred Ma
cscope > owner at Bell-Labs. > > Will keep you posted. > > Dave > [mlcscope maintainer for cygwin] > > > Fred Ma wrote: > >> Bug fix request submitted for cscope via sourceforge: >> >> This problem arose when using vim, but also appears when

Re: Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-07 Thread Fred Ma
Fred Ma wrote: After some surfing, I haven't found any evidence of malware targetting cygwin. I'm considering excluding the massive file tree from scans (AV, SpyBot, AdAware). I'd be interested in more experienced opinions about this. Thanks. Larry Hall: Any such reports

Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-07 Thread Fred Ma
After some surfing, I haven't found any evidence of malware targetting cygwin. I'm considering excluding the massive file tree from scans (AV, SpyBot, AdAware). I'd be interested in more experienced opinions about this. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space (was: vim mlcscope interface issues)

2007-01-03 Thread Fred Ma
Bug fix request submitted for cscope via sourceforge: This problem arose when using vim, but also appears when using "cscope -d". I get the error "cannot read trailer offset from file cscope.out". I browsed build.c to find that it is caused when reading in a single number with fscanf. To see w

Re: vim mlcscope interface issues

2007-01-02 Thread Fred Ma
oday. I may pick it up again, or simply revert to vimgrep. Thanks for any feedback. Fred On 1/2/07, Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If this shows up more than once, I apologize. Gmail is telling me it didn't get sent (twice), and it doesn't show up on the mailing list archi

Re: vim mlcscope interface issues

2007-01-02 Thread Fred Ma
If this shows up more than once, I apologize. Gmail is telling me it didn't get sent (twice), and it doesn't show up on the mailing list archive, though that may be due to transit delay. I'm ran into hanging problems with the the following combination, updated today: cygwin 1.5.23-2 vim

Re: Warning to use mkpasswd

2006-06-06 Thread Mister Fred Ma
Larry Hall wrote: Mister Fred Ma wrote: Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all users on Windows XP. The administrator account is local to the machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user account. When I launch a cygwin bash shel

Warning to use mkpasswd

2006-06-05 Thread Mister Fred Ma
Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all users on Windows XP. The administrator account is local to the machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user account. When I launch a cygwin bash shell as administrator, things are fine. When I launch it as no

whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages

2006-01-28 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old cygwin installation at the moment. I eventually found that "stat" resides in coreutils, but I was wondering if there is a way to specify whole-word matche

Re: Inconsistent results from "du -sk ."

2006-01-02 Thread Fred Ma
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Fred Ma on 12/30/2005 1:20 PM: >>When I repeatedly issue "du -sk ." within seconds of each other, the >>results are different, and there is no process running that could be >>changing the contents of the directory. Here is an illu

Inconsistent results from "du -sk ."

2005-12-30 Thread Fred Ma
When I repeatedly issue "du -sk ." within seconds of each other, the results are different, and there is no process running that could be changing the contents of the directory. Here is an illustrative session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu ### Here are t

Re: sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-16 Thread Fred Ma
> Subject: Re: sshd only allows connection to local accounts > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:08:42 -0400 > From: Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 06:22 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:08:47AM -0400, Fred Ma wrote: > >

sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Fred Ma
hat more is required to allow ssh connections to nonlocal user accounts? I only have control over the local PC. Even here, I don't have absolute control; for example, I can't login as "administrator", but I can login to an account that is part of the administrators group. Thanks

Re: ~^Z hangs ssh

2003-06-30 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Larry Hall wrote: > > Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm finding that ~^Z hangs the cygwin session > > rather than suspending my connection. I'm using > > cygwin to ssh into a solaris box. I've confirmed > > that susp

~^Z hangs ssh

2003-06-29 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
iling list or Google. Does anyone else have this problem, or a fix? Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygw

top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
Forgot to change the subject line Original Message Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 20 Jun 2003 09:53:42 - Issue 2902 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:54:15 -0400 From: Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Carlo Florendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:28:

Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
Original Message Subject: Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:47:06 -0400 From: Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vince Hoffman wrote: > > Hi, > sshd sto

Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
looked at the man pages for where sshd records its log of accesses, but couldn't find info about this. Nothing in the default config file either. Is this a cygwin specific location? I would have liked to check for external accesses today (or yesterday, by now). -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ca

top is gone

2003-06-19 Thread Fred Ma
that? I just spent the whole night trying to get my environment back (not finished yet), and I wonder if it might have been something simple I'm overlooking. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5

Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Fred Ma
Måns Rullgård wrote: > Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had a class member function that returned an object, according to > > the prototype. Also according to the function definition. But, the > > function body didn't actually contain a return st

Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Fred Ma
gs, which I only find because they crash on cygwin. -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Docu

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Fred Ma
all a time Kerio and ZoneAlarm kept asking for server rights for some Win2K service programs. Internet access didn't work without granting these rights. So I granted them. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Onta

Re: gdb discrepancy in c++ iterators

2003-03-29 Thread Fred Ma
iour (and not just when using gdb), it would be a surprise to see it as a gdb problem (or my use of it). Thanks for the pointers. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: gdb discrepancy in c++ iterators

2003-03-29 Thread Fred Ma
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Fred Ma wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm having the following problem only on cygwin, > > not on solaris 8. I have a sanity-check program: > > > > #include > > #include

gdb discrepancy in c++ iterators

2003-03-29 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I'm having the following problem only on cygwin, not on solaris 8. I have a sanity-check program: #include #include using namespace std; int main(void) { vector vi(3); vector::iterator it_vi = vi.begin(); cout << "Hello world."; } I c

Re: "tee" is coredumping

2003-02-20 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've got the latest cygwin 1.3.20-1, cygutils 1.1.3-1. > > The "tee" command is core dumping on me, but > > only with a particular set of circumstances. I use

Re: Question re. export environment variable

2003-02-20 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Thanks, Bob. That's the way I expected it to work. I was just unsure of whether there was something cygwin-specific, as it seems strange that something like HOSTNAME is not marked for export at the time that it is set. I'll stick it into ~/.bashrc. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question re. export environment variable

2003-02-20 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu). > > I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment > > variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty > > sure t

"tee" is coredumping

2003-02-20 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I've got the latest cygwin 1.3.20-1, cygutils 1.1.3-1. The "tee" command is core dumping on me, but only with a particular set of circumstances. I use it as follows: make -f client.mak 2>&1 | tee client.out I realize this is not telling you a whole lot because it depends on what all

Question re. export environment variable

2003-02-20 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu). I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty sure this is not a make problem), $(HOSTNAME) is empty. It gets fixed if I do "export HOSTNAME" before running make. Is there a way to check if the exp

Re: less 378 still not anchoring to \

2003-02-02 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
sting I saw did indeed mention linking Perl, but I thought that meant added features rather than different syntax. It looks like I better accelerate my picking up of Perl. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada,

SOLVED: gnu tar opens tgz's with file times in the future

2002-12-31 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm gnu-tarring files with tar version 1.13.25 on solaris, then untarring with the same version on cygwin. The files are dated 2002-12-31 18:09:xx in the tgz on solaris. When I sftp them to cygwin, the tar programs shows the files to be dated 2003-01-01

gnu tar opens tgz's with file times in the future

2002-12-31 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
t;date" at the cygwin prompt shows the computer clock to be right i.e. Tue Dec. 31 2002. Cygcheck gives: cygutils1.1.3-1 cygwin 1.3.17-1 I'm using Win2K with SP3. Thanks for any pointers. -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1

VNC/ssh connection freezes, so does PC

2002-12-02 Thread fred ma
problem. Thanks for any feedback. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: dos2unix/d2u does nothing

2002-11-25 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
to be immune to the mount type and (conceivably) that >>it resets the >>file's modification time after reformatting it. >> >>Randall Schulz >>Mountain View, CA USA >> Hi, All, It's in the cygwin file tree, /usr/bin/dos2unix version 0.1.2.

dos2unix/d2u does nothing

2002-11-22 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
(that is, I feel it doesn't work in-place, but thank goodness it works). Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
ix > ".exe" for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and > execute files files given only the base name (sans suffix), other uses > ("cat," "less," or more apropos "nm," "size" or "file") demand the > full file name

No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hi, I'm using cygwin 1.3.15 in WinME: Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.15 DLL epoch: 19 When I try to "ls" a file I know to be there, I'm told it isn't: $ which ftp telnet /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/telnet $ cd /usr/bin $ ls -l ftp telnet -r

ftp put; less search; directory timestamp

2002-10-27 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
ny suggestions, or even acknowledgements of the problem so that I know it's not just my installation. Fred --- Fred Ma Department of Electronics Carleton University, Mackenzie Building 1125 Colonel By

Re: gvimdiff fails on network drive

2002-10-25 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
n't diff. (I first cd to the remote directory via the mount point). Fred ------- Fred Ma Department of Electronics Carleton University, Mackenzie Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B

gvimdiff fails on network drive

2002-10-25 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Just as a note, my gvim is invoked by the bash function { ( unset SHELL; /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim60/gvim $* ) & } because gvim's diff *never* worked prior to the "unset SHELL". Thanks for any suggestions. Fred --- Fred Ma Depar

Two ssh connections slow

2002-10-03 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
with upgrading. At first, I thought it was the free ZoneAlarm firewall, but the same behaviour is observed without the firewall. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced similar kind of situation-specific slowdowns with ssh on the new cygwin installation. Fred -----