Cygwin setup keeps showing error about package unknown in file
inetutils-server.sh, so ran it manually and saw the actual problem:
$ cd /etc/postinstall
$ ./inetutils-server.sh
*** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
*** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt]
On a new 64-bit Cygwin install, no /etc/ssh* files or dirs exist, I
copied over id_dsa and id_dsa.pub into my ~/.ssh, nothing else, and
got the directory and file permissions right.
Kept running into this failure connecting:
debug1: Skipping ssh-dss key /MYPATH/.ssh/id_dsa for not in
PubkeyAccepte
I've been noticing the background timer giving odd messages from emacs-w32 once
in a while such as the following when not touching the keyboard and the editor
is idle.:
seconds-to-time: Arithmetic range error: "round", -0.0e+NaN
seconds-to-time: Arithmetic range error: "round", 0.0
The stack d
On Thu, 1 May 2014 08:11:21 -0700 (PDT)
Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
> Emacs-w32, version 24.3.1, has been crashing constantly,
> so much so I learnt how to use "recover-session." Most
> recently I finally forced myself to run gdb on its sadly
> expired body and listed the following stack:
> (gdb) bt
On 4/5/2014 4:43 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 4/4/2014 3:35 PM, Ivan Todoroski wrote:
2) Type: ssh blargh # or any non-existent host
3) Press Ctrl-C immediately after that
On my machine, the Ctrl-C doesn't stop SSH from trying to look up the
non-existent host, it keeps going until it give
On 4/4/2014 3:35 PM, Ivan Todoroski wrote:
On my machine, the Ctrl-C doesn't stop SSH from trying to ...
I believe console applications may require I/O to/from
stdin/stdout/stderr for Control-C (or even Control-S / Control-Q for
flow control) to be noticed. In that period of time when there
On 3/20/2014 8:57 AM, Patrick Herbst wrote:
On 2/18/2014 4:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Did my earlier patch get included? I haven't seen a "run" new version
yet.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg6.html
My patch was the one that properly quote arguments. Maybe let's start
with
On 3/9/2014 2:08 PM, Peter Holsberg wrote:
I have a perl script that I would like to execute simply by
double-clicking on its name from a Windows filemanager window. (That
is, I do not want to use the command line at all, nor do I want to use
an icon.)
Eg, myscript.pl
I tried using this
#!C
On 2/28/2014 9:09 AM, mrushton wrote:
Can some on give me a help with creating a shortcut to a shell script under
Windows 7 ?
I am doing something like this in the windows shorcut :
C:\CygwinSoftware\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico --exec
/cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/mymenu.sh
Well
On 2/18/2014 4:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 17 17:25, Jon TURNEY wrote:
...
I went to all the trouble of investigating this, discovering that
run2_freeargv() is double-freeing the last element in newargv because the NULL
terminator isn't moved when the arguments are shifted down over ne
On 2/9/2014 12:11 PM, carolus wrote:
> Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file
> in Cygwin vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
I wonder if anyone else needs Windows file associations for sequences of
Cygwin commands as well. If this is useful to many, maybe
On 1/31/2014 5:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 31 22:40, Frank Fesevur wrote:
2014-01-31 Corinna Vinschen:
Is anybody here who's using /etc/passwd and/or group files
of more than 16K in size?
The new way to store the stuff would make Cygwin definitely faster,
but it would struggle
On 1/10/2014 7:57 AM, John Smith wrote:
the None user group won't allow me to change group permissions. When
rsyncing with a remote server, I mirror permissions from that server
Wanting to change file permissions with rsync (or any other command) to
something you don't have the right to do is
On 12/30/2013 2:23 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
From: bartels
On 12/30/2013 06:16 AM, Nithin Kurien wrote:
When I type the following sequence of commands:
cd ~; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0700 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sample;
rm -rf sample; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0755 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g"
sa
On a fresh 32-bit cygwin install onto a 64-bit windows 7 machine,
somehow sh.exe became a child node inside these two areas (or subtree
areas) in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\Curren
On 12/26/2013 1:32 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Dec 26 11:11, Max Polk wrote:
From the bash shell, sitting in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers
directory, when I run "ls" I can see about 6 files/dirs total. The
"etc" directory is mysteriously missing from the output of &quo
From the bash shell, sitting in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers
directory, when I run "ls" I can see about 6 files/dirs total. The "etc"
directory is mysteriously missing from the output of "ls", but present
in the output of "ld -ld etc". Strange that I can't list it with "ls",
but I can list
On 12/16/2013 5:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
/usr/bin/ls: /usr/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file
/bin/bash: Exit 126
This is the error that greets me when I try to execute a command in cygwin from
a Windows Command Prompt like so:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -h always /bin/bash -l ls
On 12/6/2013 8:38 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I
Try from mintty window running emacs without X and without start files:
emacs -nw -Q
See if other X apps run:
xterm
There should be no errors running the above.
--
Prob
Is the cygwin mail list moderated? I tried 4 times sending the same
thing after *initially* getting rejected for a policy violation then
trying to do the global allowed senders tip and other body content
changes and getting no responses nor anything showing up in the archive
web site. Sorry i
Follow-up to run 1.0.3 crashing and leaving run.exe.stackdump, first
reported at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00169.html
The list wouldn't let me send a patch because it had an email address in
the Changelog, so I had to put it here: http://pastebin.com/4SSPDGQh
The first fix is much l
ictly by bozo.
WARNING: See warning above about not letting Administrator in.
You've been warned!
NOTE: Replace bozo with your user name.
#! /bin/sh
for file in "$@"; do
echo "$file"
chmod -R 700 "$file&qu
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