RE: openssh port forwarding administratively prohibited

2010-09-24 Thread Stephen Bennett
> I'm not sure what to do to fix this though. The administrative prohibition is on the server. There's nothing you can do to fix it, other than find a server that isn't github to proxy through. Accelrys Limited (http://accelrys.com) Registered office: 334 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0

RE: sshd / VC builds / Fatal Error C1902

2009-10-13 Thread Stephen Bennett
> The gist is that cl works from Windows, but dies with: > > Fatal Error C1902: Program database manager mismatch; please check your > installation. > > when invoked from a ssh session using a different account than the account > sshd is running under. My first reaction to that would be to c

RE: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

2009-09-29 Thread Stephen Bennett
> Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, > and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any > way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or > exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company have to > read t

sh.exe hangs when invoked from make without a terminal

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen Bennett
test.pl: $childpid=fork; die "failed to fork" if (!defined $childpid); if (! $childpid) { close STDIN; close STDOUT; close STDERR; exec "make -f test.mk &>test.out"; } test.mk: var=$(shell echo foobar | cat) default: @echo "$(var)" Running "make -f tes

RE: Intermittent 'make' segfaults in Cygwin

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen Bennett
> Try using %CYGWIN%=error_start to get either gdb or dumper.exe attached at > the exact moment of failure. Check the user guide > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html > for full usage information. Thanks for the tip. That was enough to get a stack trace with no symbol informa

Intermittent 'make' segfaults in Cygwin

2007-11-16 Thread Stephen Bennett
Hi all, We've recently begun using Cygwin and Make to build one of our larger software products on Windows, so that we can use the same build system between win32 and the various Linux platforms. Unfortunately, on our Windows machines, we've been seeing intermittent segmentation faults in make