ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares

2008-04-01 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Hi guys, I got a Linux home directory. On Windows, this directory imported as Windows share, and I mount it under Cygwin. This way, I can use all my Linux settings dot-files, and I don't see the Windows path name mess that much. Ssh (OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007) on Cygwin refus

Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-24 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Hi guys, I'd like to compile an old unix program that uses curses as a windows standalone application. Is it possible to do this with Cygwin? MinGW supports curses, and Cygwin supports MinGW. It looks like curses is gone once I pass -mno-cygwin to gcc. Is this intentional? Thanks in advance

Re: Problem with automake

2007-05-31 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Eric, thank you very much for your help. Below, I'm going to answer to the questions you asked. It would be great if I could get that stuff to work again. :-) Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Public Mailing Lists on 5/27/2007 8:30 PM: /us

Problem with automake

2007-05-27 Thread Public Mailing Lists
I'm trying to compile some older linux program with automake under Cygwin. (My Cygwin installation is on the latest version.) I'm getting the following error message: $ ./autogen.sh calling autoconf and autoheader... /home/test/project /usr/bin/m4:configure.in:1363: cannot create temporary file

Re: Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin

2007-03-12 Thread Public Mailing Lists
quest LOG: shutting down LOG: database system is shut down I would rather like to start everything at boot time with init. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks for your help, Gordon Igor Peshansky wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: Public Mailing Lists wrote: I

Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin

2007-03-11 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Hi, I'm trying to setup a Postgresql server on Windows-XP/Cygwin. I've done this a couple of times on Linux, and I'm experiencing some difficulties on Windows. I have installed the packages postgresql (version 8.0.7-1) and cygrunserv (version 1.17-1), and I have syslog and init running. If

Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Probably not. You can use every file system which can be accessed by the underlying Windows also in Cygwin, but except for NTFS file systems, the permission handling of the underlying file system drivers (here: Ext2 IFS) is usually rudimentary at best. As for upper/lowe

Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

2005-09-22 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Hi all, I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called Ext2 IFS for Windows. Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin us

/dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

2005-09-08 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Eric Blake wrote: Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about "depending on your installation"). here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation: $ ls /dev ls: /dev: No such file or directory It seems that

Re: xargs still nok?

2005-09-08 Thread Public Mailing Lists
zzapper wrote: Is Xargs still reqd for find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; Well, not exatctly. grep -i does not show you the filename, if you call it this way. You could either use find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i something {} /dev/null \; which would make grep to show the filena

Re: xargs still nok?

2005-09-08 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: Hi, GNU xargs version 4.2.25 or more likely am I misusing xargs? $ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long ^ Nothing to do with xargs. Use find in