Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-08-04 Thread Eric J Korpela via Cygwin
Was away for a couple days and just came back to this. Reboots didn't seem to get the DLL replaced, which probably means something is weirdly broken with file permissions in windows on my system. That bodes ill for the future, and probably means a Windows reinstall is in my future. Eventually I

Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-08-01 Thread Eric J Korpela via Cygwin
setup-x86_64 says I'm at 3.5.3-1 (and yes I have rebooted, several times). I'll try a reinstall. On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 4:08 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2024-07-30 18:58, Eric J Korpela via Cygwin wrote: > > Following an update of the packages I have installed

Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-07-31 Thread Eric J Korpela via Cygwin
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:16 AM Eliot Moss wrote: > Your cygcheck.out does not list a man.exe or wget.exe. I am not sure how > the strace got as far as it did. But I suggest reinstalling those two > programs. Not sure how those exe's got zapped. Maybe an installation > upgrade did not complet

Need to update file package utility 5.44 to 5.45 and keychain 2.7.1 to 2.8.5

2024-04-26 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, The keychain package already has updated by the Ubuntu Team: dpkg --list | grep keychain ii keychain 2.8.5-2 all key manager for OpenSSH And the file package utility because I find bugs inside 5.44 version, and wid

Re: [Question] When the cygwin support Python version 3.11.5 or newer?

2024-04-23 Thread J M via Cygwin
El lun., 22 abr. 2024 2:26, Zhike Wang (EXT) via Cygwin escribió: > Hi > > Any update/advice for this topic? Or should I raise a ticket to other > Cygwin Mailing Lists? > Thanks > > BRs//Zhike > From: Zhike Wang (EXT) > Sent: April 18, 2024 20:29 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: [Question] When

Re: Howto request an upgrade for keychain package

2024-04-20 Thread J M via Cygwin
El vie., 19 abr. 2024 21:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin escribió: > On 2024-04-19 08:53, J M via Cygwin wrote: > > El jue., 18 abr. 2024 20:10, J M > escribió: > >> I'm having some problems (gpg2, and some for ssh management) with > keychain > >> package: h

Re: Howto request an upgrade for keychain package

2024-04-19 Thread J M via Cygwin
El jue., 18 abr. 2024 20:10, J M escribió: > Hi, > > I'm having some problems (gpg2, and some for ssh management) with keychain > package: https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/keychain.html > > It version is 2.7.1, can be upgraded to, by example the last 2.8.5

Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

2024-04-19 Thread J M via Cygwin
El jue., 18 abr. 2024 18:50, Andrey Repin escribió: > Greetings, J M! > > > Isn't it better that original_path be removed all startwith > > $mycygwin_homepath? > > $original_path is stored once when you first run Cygwin with empty home > profile, IIRC. And not

Howto request an upgrade for keychain package

2024-04-18 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, I'm having some problems (gpg2, and some for ssh management) with keychain package: https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/keychain.html It version is 2.7.1, can be upgraded to, by example the last 2.8.5? It is here: https://github.com/funtoo/keychain/tree/2.8.5 Regards -- Problem report

Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

2024-04-17 Thread J M via Cygwin
24 23:35, Andrey Repin escribió: > Greetings, J M! > > > I think that is a bug, in my Windows environment path I have this: > > C:\cygwin64\bin > > > Then for some mystery change this to /usr/bin, instead to delete. > > You can file an issue? > > It's n

Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

2024-04-17 Thread J M via Cygwin
I think that is a bug, in my Windows environment path I have this: C:\cygwin64\bin Then for some mystery change this to /usr/bin, instead to delete. You can file an issue? Regards El mié, 17 abr 2024 a las 19:10, J M () escribió: > Hi, > > I see repeated /usr/bin in my path. > I

See repeated /usr/bin in my path

2024-04-17 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, I see repeated /usr/bin in my path. I don't known if is something of my PC or not. To check I do: which -a ls Show: /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/ls My path is: /usr/local/bin /usr/bin ... /usr/bin ... Seeing other files, I reach to /etc/profile and use one variable ORIGINAL_PATH that contains one /

Re: Cygwin a bit slow

2024-04-12 Thread J M via Cygwin
:34, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: > > J M via Cygwin wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> Specifically for this problem, I have investigated the problem and can > be > >> related to pipes and antivirus. > >> > >> Specifically > >> while

Re: Change for the initial installation of Cygwin to set the default terminal terminal 256 color

2024-04-12 Thread J M via Cygwin
search and moves over the yellow background text. What settings would I need to make it look like Ubuntu's vim? I don't know if I can put screenshots to explain it better. Regards El jue., 11 abr. 2024 14:36, J M escribió: > Hi, > > You can change in the initial insta

Change for the initial installation of Cygwin to set the default terminal terminal 256 color

2024-04-11 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, You can change in the initial install setup of Cygwin to set the default terminal to 256 color as Ubuntu does? Regards -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cygwin a bit slow

2024-04-09 Thread J M via Cygwin
win64 and perhaps those paths of those pipes are having effects in that other software. By now this... Regards El lun., 8 abr. 2024 21:48, Adam Dinwoodie escribió: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 16:19, J M via Cygwin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm seeing that Cyg

Re: Cygwin a bit slow

2024-04-05 Thread J M via Cygwin
I added, sed and grex x60 to x80, no software running and no antivirus. Regards El vie., 5 abr. 2024 17:18, J M escribió: > Hi, > > I'm seeing that Cygwin is a bit slow, directly and after comparing to > simple ubuntu virtual machines by example. > > Specifically: > &

Cygwin a bit slow

2024-04-05 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, I'm seeing that Cygwin is a bit slow, directly and after comparing to simple ubuntu virtual machines by example. Specifically: - Copy and paste texts in vim, I see clearly the slow in paste. - Using sed and/or grep that count approx. between 6x and 8x respect to virtual machine simple ubuntu

Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options

2024-03-22 Thread J M via Cygwin
Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options. I trying to use pgrep or pkill utility commands to find processes but using the full path names, by example, find /usr/bin/bash (package procps-ng): Then, if I use pgrep -f /usr/bin/bash, don't find nothing. Using pkill -f /usr/bin

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

2024-03-22 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, This is a very painfull and weird failed error of Windows antivirus. I apologize for not having realized before. For other people who may encounter this difficult problem, the key to find this error is (cut connections only for sites that use Letsencrypt certificates), is the strace /usr/bin

Re: ACEs and ACLs

2024-03-20 Thread J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin
trasted with "advanced" permissions.] Thanks for whatever you can suggest on my non-critical, low-priority request for additional information. On 2024-03-18 08:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Mar 18 08:30, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote: Thank you for the greatly needed as

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

2024-03-19 Thread J M via Cygwin
ebmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> El lun, 18 mar 2024 a las 23:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin () escribió: > On 2024-03-18 15:21, J M via Cygwin wrote: > > With a fresh install of Cygwin then I launch (with package curl > installed): > > > > curl -O htt

Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

2024-03-18 Thread J M via Cygwin
Hi, With a fresh install of Cygwin then I launch (with package curl installed): curl -O https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Shows a curl 60 error ssl problem. Using -k or --insecure works, but is not recomended. Howto fix it? Regards, Cesar Jorge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.co

Re: ACEs and ACLs

2024-03-18 Thread J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin
s the network.  I'll keep looking and trying to  learn.  Thank you. On 2024-03-18 08:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Mar 18 08:30, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote: Thank you for the greatly needed assistance, but the reference to which you have pointed me says that noacl will be

Re: ACEs and ACLs

2024-03-18 Thread J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin
cygdrive binary, posix=0, user 0 0 On 2024-03-18 04:41, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Mar 16 18:05, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote: [...] And here is the status that icacls reports back on the original, owning workstation after having use vim to modify the two files from that remote

ACEs and ACLs

2024-03-16 Thread J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin
I have been using Cygwin for a long, long time.  That said, I would have to admit there is a good deal about the architecture and infrastructure I have never really investigated which is a huge compliment to those of you who maintain this wonderful framework. It mostly just works reliably and I

Re: Remotely restart a windows machine

2020-09-25 Thread Peter J. Krum via Cygwin
Oh OK thanks didn't realize it was calling the windows commands On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:28 AM Peter J. Krum wrote: > The syntax of this command is: > > NET > [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP | > HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | PAU

Re: Remotely restart a windows machine

2020-09-25 Thread Peter J. Krum via Cygwin
The syntax of this command is: NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP | HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | PAUSE | SESSION | SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ] On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 9:32 AM Peter J. Krum wrote: > I used t

Remotely restart a windows machine

2020-09-25 Thread Peter J. Krum via Cygwin
I used this command on ubuntu: net rpc shutdown -r -f -t 30 -I 123.123.123.123 -U user:pass What would be the equivalent in CYGWIN? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscrib

Cygwin/X starts up LXDE?

2020-06-17 Thread J via Cygwin
Hello, I went ahead and installed everything but now when I use the XWin Server shortcut, I get a window that covers the Windows desktop, titled pcmanfm. The xdg system tray icon also starts, along with the "Cygwin/X Server:0.0" system-tray icon. The desktop window contains a desktop, with a tras

Re: cygrunsrv does not start cygsshd at boot

2020-01-23 Thread Andrew J. Schorr
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 03:08:12PM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > I've used dnscache for network service dependencies (and cygserver and > syslog-ng > for other Cygwin services) with delayed start and preshutdown (cygrunsrv -O, > --preshutdown). > Where previous usage was cygrunsrv -t, --type manual

Re: cygrunsrv does not start cygsshd at boot

2020-01-22 Thread Andrew J. Schorr
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:37:15PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrew J. Schorr writes: > > How do I fix and/or troubleshoot this? I need to find a way to get > > cygsshd to start automatically when the system reboots. > > Try to set the service to "delayed start"

cygrunsrv does not start cygsshd at boot

2020-01-21 Thread Andrew J. Schorr
Hi, Over the weekend, I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro x86_64 and then installed Cygwin x86_64 3.1.2. I ran ssh-host-config, and cygsshd starts and works as expected when I run "cygrunsrv --start cygsshd". But the cygsshd service is not started automatically when the system reboots. I must

cygwin/x fails to start with error loadlibrary failed with error 87: parameter is incorrect

2019-01-27 Thread William J. Schilp, PhD
i've been using cygwin/x for many years and i did an installation to a new computer and when i try to start xwin i get a popup windows with the following error message: LoadLibrary failed with error 87: the parameter is incorrect. i start xwin with the following command line: startxwin -- -clipb

Re: CYGWIN slow when accessing network share

2019-01-24 Thread J. David Boyd
db...@attentigroup.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > Brian Inglis writes: > >> >> Network access may be slowed down by accessing AD. >> Install and run cygserver at system startup to cache and share Cygwin AD info >> across processes. > > I don't see any

Re: CYGWIN slow when accessing network share

2019-01-24 Thread J. David Boyd
Brian Inglis writes: > > Network access may be slowed down by accessing AD. > Install and run cygserver at system startup to cache and share Cygwin AD info > across processes. I don't see any cygserver options in the config file that relate to AD. What am I missing? Thanks for the info! Dave

CYGWIN slow when accessing network share

2019-01-23 Thread J. David Boyd
I've tried Googling for this, with pretty much 0 results. On my windows 10 machine (32 or 64 bit Cygwin) ls of anything that is a network share seems to be really slow, taking 20 - 30 seconds to complete. Saving a file there takes about 10 -20 seconds as well. My windows 7 machine (32 bit Cygwin)

Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-24 Thread J (Jean-Claude Gervais)
u both for your help. J On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 18:01 -0700, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:59:00, =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= > wrote: > > And that's where you went off in the wrong direction.  You're > > writing to  > > the Cygwin mailing

Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-20 Thread J
mutex_unlock' /usr/lib/libpthread.a(t-d001101.o):fake:(.text+0x2): undefined reference to `__imp_pthread_setspecific' I've tried linking the thread library, but it does not seem to make a difference. I'm not sure how to proceed. On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Steven Penny

Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-19 Thread J
Hello, I am trying to produce an executable using mingw that uses all-static linking, that is, that it does not rely on any DLLs except possibly the Microsoft msvcrt.dll Is it possible? If I am not mistaken, when selecting the package mingw64-x86_64-zlib with the installer, it installs the libra

solved-no fingerprint on site

2017-01-23 Thread J . McNamara
Hi- I found a solution. I can use gpg --list-keys based on the sig file that I used to import the keys. thx. - jim -- Sent with my mu4e -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

fingerprint for the 64 bit installer

2017-01-23 Thread J . McNamara
Hi - I want to verify the fingerprint on your site for the installer. I downloaded the key and imported it. then i used gpg --verify file1 file1.sig and I have no way to check the signature on those 2 files because the fingerprint is not listed on the cygwin site! Please advise... thx. - J

Re: BashHere Prompt

2016-05-26 Thread Kevin J. Duling
s in Explorer in my Win7 VM, so I can't tell if it does the same thing. Mine does have the vulnerability if the bhere.bat file is deleted/missing from c:\cygwin, it will produce an error. On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 26/05/2016 19:48, Kevin J. Duling wrote: >

BashHere Prompt

2016-05-26 Thread Kevin J. Duling
Several years back, I wrote a utility to create a "Bash Here" prompt similar to the "Command Prompt Here" WinXP powertoy, but I really didn't have any way of sharing it with others. It doesn't really bundle in to a package, nor is it something that would be included with the DLL, so I'm not clear

Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror

2016-01-22 Thread Brian J. Krische
I'm using a local LAN server to act as a cache of a cygwin package mirror. I'm trying to have the Cygwin setup application use this local server instead of one of the public mirrors. However, I'm having a bit of a problem. It appears the cygwin setup application can't use HTTPS to connect to thi

Re: Permission denied error when running git in 64-bit CYGWIN console

2015-12-17 Thread John J Ottusch
Achim, Updating my 64-bit CYGWIN installation to the latest release (as of today), which includes git version 2.6.2, did in fact solve the problem I was experiencing. Thanks, jjo -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

Permission denied error when running git in 64-bit CYGWIN console

2015-12-17 Thread John J Ottusch
The transition from 32-bit CYGWIN (C32) to 64-bit CYGWIN (C64) has been mostly smooth, but I have encountered some unexpected difficulties. The latest involves 'git' version 2.5.3. When I run 'git difftool' from my project directory in a C32 console I get the expected behavior, but doing the sa

Re: gnuplot 5.x.x.x not starting correctly in 64-bit CYGWIN console

2015-11-16 Thread John J Ottusch
>> The command 'cygcheck /usr/bin/gnuplot.exe' should give you that information. >> Ken Doing so finds several required DLL's but also reports cygcheck: track_down: could not find cyglua-5.1.dll which is interesting because running the command lua enters an interactive mode (unlike gnup

gnuplot 5.x.x.x not starting correctly in 64-bit CYGWIN console

2015-11-16 Thread John J Ottusch
I think this problem is related to the fact that I have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of CYGWIN installed on my Windows 7 PC. They are on the same disk but in different directories (/cygdrive/c/win32app/cygwin vs. /cygdrive/c/win64app/cygwin). So far I have observed the problem only when I try

Re: Somebody having access to a Windows machine with > 64 CPUs?

2015-08-11 Thread Brian J. Johnson
e looking for, Corinna. -- Brian J. Johnson My statements are my own, are not authorized by SGI, and do not necessarily represent SGI’s positions. -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Serial Port communication issues in Cygwin

2015-07-15 Thread J Kohn
Hello, I am trying to use Cygwin to automate some testing of an external device. The external device communicates to the PC running Cygwin over a serial cable at 115200 baud. I have been able to manually send and receive data from the external device using PuTTY, Teraterm, and Powershell, but I am

Re: [64bit] cygwin-devel headers broken

2015-05-01 Thread J. Offerman
Yes, xserver builds on Cygwin 2.0.1-1 now. It failed because of "select" being undeclared. On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 01/05/2015 06:03, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> On 4/30/2015 8:52 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> >>> There is a crash issue induced on cygwin-64 (not on -32)

Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

2015-04-20 Thread J. David Boyd
Daniel writes: > Murthy Gandikota wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I am using Cygwin64. I am getting a file from RedHat in tar + zip format. >> Currently I am able to unzip it and untar it in 2 steps as follows: >> >> $gunzip mytar.gz >> $tar xvf mytar >> >> However, I would like to do the following: >> >

Re: Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver

2015-03-27 Thread J. David Boyd
Marco Atzeri writes: > On 3/27/2015 3:29 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: >> >> I keep having problems with vforks. Sometime everything is fine for days, >> then I start emacs, and get vfork errors. >> >> So I rebaseall, and peflagsall. Emacs works great. Oop

Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver

2015-03-27 Thread J. David Boyd
I keep having problems with vforks. Sometime everything is fine for days, then I start emacs, and get vfork errors. So I rebaseall, and peflagsall. Emacs works great. Oops, forgot to restart cygserver. Restart, bam, vfork errors. Or, no vfork error. It all seems so inconsistent and random.

Re: Quanta Plus in cygwin?

2015-03-10 Thread J. David Boyd
"Gery ." writes: > Hello all, > > Has anyone successfully installed Quanta Plus in cygwin? I downloaded > the bz2 source file from sourceforge.net/projects/quanta and tried to > install in my cygwin system with no success (CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW64 gery > 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:03 i686 Cygwin)

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-25 Thread J. David Boyd
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Feb 24 14:46, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With Roger's very patient help, I was able to get ADInsight capturing >> information. >> >> I did a run with the original dll under 32 bit Cygwin running a 32 bit >> program (echo). >> >> Output and all p

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread J. David Boyd
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Feb 5 04:43, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> What's a reliable and efficient way to determine programmatically if the >> shell >> that's running has elevated privileges? >> >> Or if you prefer, how can I tell if the shell was started with "Run as >> administrator"? > >

Re: problems with apache2 and postgres after Pc in sleep mode

2014-12-12 Thread J. David Boyd
Marco Atzeri writes: > On 12/11/2014 3:17 PM, Gery . wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So far things have been nicely working in my cygwin with postgres >> and apache, thanks guys for the excellent job you're doing in >> cygwin. The only thing is that when I stop apache2 and postgres, or >> put in sleep mode m

Re: Ctrl-C does not work from Cygwin for the java program

2014-12-04 Thread J. David Boyd
Warren Young writes: > On Dec 3, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Michelle Ma wrote: > >> If I type Ctrl-C from the windows command prompt, the "Ouput" line got >> called. However, if I type Ctrl-c from the Cygwin, the "Output" line >> didn't get called. > > I assume you are trying this from the default MinT

Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?

2014-07-08 Thread Chris J. Breisch
At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 8:16:41 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-07-08 18:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >> At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote: >>> util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was

Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?

2014-07-08 Thread Chris J. Breisch
random" collection of utilities? >> >> Am I the only one to get that problem??? > util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed. > man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed, > specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary. Yes, this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together, and trying to get the DB creation to work a little faster as well. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Why do I need Cygwin for Yeoman?

2014-07-04 Thread Chris J. Breisch
NEED Cygwin to use Yeoman? Can I just install a Cygwin > command prompt and leave the rest? I don't know the answer to the first question, but the answer to the second question is no. However, you can install just the base system. That's what I would recommend. -- Chris J. Bre

Re: man2html alternative?

2014-07-03 Thread Chris J. Breisch
At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:43:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-07-03 11:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >> A version of man2html is part of AutoGen. See here: >> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/index.html and here: >> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/man2html.html. >&g

Re: man2html alternative?

2014-07-03 Thread Chris J. Breisch
rtslist.txt), but I don't know if man2html is included in the package. If there's interest, I could look into moving this project out of Cygwin Ports and into Cygwin itself. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Re: gold star (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: man-db-2.6.7-1)

2014-07-02 Thread Chris J. Breisch
me. >> >> Andrew, could you make it so when you have a chance? > Awarded! http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#CB My spam filter ate this one and I only noticed it after switching e-mail apps. Thanks! -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

2014-07-02 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Hello Andrey, Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 8:37:11 AM, you wrote: > Greetings, Chris J. Breisch! >>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files >>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb? >> Oh, that's a good ques

Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

2014-07-02 Thread Chris J. Breisch
you install mandb. mandb without any arguments updates the database, and mandb -q updates it quietly. Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: htt

Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

2014-07-01 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Didn't find any references in the mailing list. Keith man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis. mandb -q has similar functionality. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Achim Gratz wrote: However, "mandb -dc" ran through This fixed my problem... :-) Awesome. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
can find. I can change the postinstall script to do a "mandb -dc" for now, I guess. The "-d" output goes to stderr, I see. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Chris J. Breisch wrote: > Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself > from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several > warnings, such as what you see above. I did this: $ /usr/bin/mandb -c and it prin

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
nstall How to fix this? Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several warnings, such as what you see above. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
be wrong. As I said, I can take a look into seeing how difficult it would be to create a Cygwin specific version of mandb without browser capabilities. I'm not convinced it's worth crippling mandb just to remove this dependency, however. Finally, I'm not sure that removing this d

Re: How to strictly differentiate .exe with ???

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
-i $file2 | sed -e 's/ .*//') if [ $inode1 -eq $inode2 ]; then echo $file1 is actually $file2 else echo $file1 and $file2 are separate files fi EOF $ chmod +x areFilesSame.sh $ ./areFilesSame.sh bar bar is actually bar.exe -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: man-db-2.6.7-1

2014-06-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
= http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/ -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Change PS1 when running as administrator

2014-06-16 Thread Chris J. Breisch
is a shorter test equivalent to your example. You might want to look at this thread: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00256.html I use the registry test, but the id method would also work. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin on Max OS X ?

2014-06-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
uff is almost certainly easier. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

2014-06-04 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Vera Serif Mono XTerm*faceSize: 10 XTerm*toolBar: false XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white XTerm*cursorColor: LightBlue XTerm*ScrollBar: true XTerm*rightScrollBar: true -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: "cygpath -u" inside backticks differs

2014-06-04 Thread J. David Boyd
Eric Blake writes: > > see why `` is obsolete, and you should be using $()? Among other > reasons, \ inside `` has weird rules. > Wow, when did this happen? I've been using `` for years, and never heard of $(). What version did this change? I think I need to go back and re-read some document

Re: It's back -- "gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory"

2014-05-30 Thread Chris J. Breisch
;, to see what it's attempting to do? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-30 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Do you? https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00284.html From the same thread. Amazing that you missed that. You are out of your element, mate https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00298.html I think you

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
/2014-05/msg00279.html Do you? https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00284.html From the same thread. Amazing that you missed that. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.3-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-05-28 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Ken Brown wrote: On 5/28/2014 1:13 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: JonY wrote: gcc-4.8.3-1 is now uploaded for both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin. This includes a patch to automatically link in the default manifest for executable files. Known issues: Cygwin 64-bit gcc-4.8.3-1 debuginfo package is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.3-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-05-28 Thread Chris J. Breisch
), for MS Windows $ ldd /usr/bin/g++ ldd: /usr/bin/g++: Exec format error $ ldd /usr/bin/g++.exe ldd: /usr/bin/g++.exe: Exec format error -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: g++ fails in cc1plus due to path

2014-05-20 Thread Chris J. Breisch
you got it working, then I'm happy. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: g++ fails in cc1plus due to path

2014-05-20 Thread Chris J. Breisch
7;t see any initialization path stuff in my strace. I suspect you have an old cygwin1.dll somewhere, and running cygcheck as described on the "Reporting Problems" page linked above will likely point that out. Are you running cc1plus directly? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports:

Re: More testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-05-16 Thread Chris J. Breisch
in/root ls: cannot access /win/d/cygwin/root: No such file or directory -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-16 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 15 09:17, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 14 18:52, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Yes, this might be better discussed in cygwin-apps. I guess the setting of MANPATH is mainly historical. I'

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 14 18:52, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Yes, this might be better discussed in cygwin-apps. I guess the setting of MANPATH is mainly historical. I'd be happy to not set MANPATH in /etc/profile if we no longer need i

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
problem I found with man-db and MANPATH is an upstream problem. I have an LFS system that I can use to test that and will do so later today. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-13 Thread Chris J. Breisch
gned, but if so, the design seems flawed from my perspective. From my research, this does not appear to be a Cygwin specific issue, although I haven't yet tried to reproduce it on a Linux system. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Chris J. Breisch
nt to maintain, haven't applied the necessary Cygwin patches, and haven't gotten it to successfully work on your machine, then it's a bit ludicrous to expect someone to name you the maintainer of said package. You haven't shown any evidence of your ability to perform in tha

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Chris J. Breisch
le with coreutils in the past, and I suspect if I had to, I could update it using the patches from the last version as a starting point, but I haven't found a need to do so yet. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-07 Thread Chris J. Breisch
s" for any account that it would tend to want to set as "None". That would be some smelly code though. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-07 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 6 14:22, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Windows, users and groups are identified not by uid/gid, but by their SID. The SID is a unique value, but other than that, a SID can be a user or a group and in lots of cases Windows doesn't ca

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 6 13:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Other than that, I'm open to discuss the necessity(?) to override the primary group by default. But, in fact, I'm not sure this really makes sense. Linux systems default to creating a user-spec

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
. The Windows Account technique isn't quite as nice, but admittedly, it does its job just as well. Yes, I've experienced that on Linux, but I don't recall having these file permission issues there. Perhaps I just never noticed though. Thanks, Corinna Thanks for looking into al

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/05/2014 06:39 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: 513/None is in /etc/group. It's the next to last line. The line above is the last line and apparently comes from some prior invocation of 'mkgroup -c'. I never knew until this moment that there was a &#x

Re: printf and echo no longer changing the window title

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
dow title. Note that PS1='\e]0;blah\a' Still works Works for me. Are you sure you don't have PROMPT_COMMAND set, and it's overriding it? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

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