Re: Mounting shares that require passwords

2010-08-13 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:07, Christopher Faylor <> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:56:55AM -0600, Steven Collins wrote: >>On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:28, Jeremy Bopp <> wrote: >>> On 8/13/2010 11:24 AM, Steven Collins wrote: >>>> Is there some way w

Re: Mounting shares that require passwords

2010-08-13 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:28, Jeremy Bopp <> wrote: > On 8/13/2010 11:24 AM, Steven Collins wrote: >> Is there some way within cygwin to successfully mount a share that >> requires a password. Until I run the "net use" command or other >> Windows applicatio

Mounting shares that require passwords

2010-08-13 Thread Steven Collins
Is there some way within cygwin to successfully mount a share that requires a password. Until I run the "net use" command or other Windows application to open the share with the password Cygwin is unable to access it. The best I've come up with so far is to run the "net use" from my .bashrc. Is the

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion

2010-08-05 Thread Steven Collins
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:13, DePriest, Jason R. <> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Balažic <> wrote: >> On 5 August 2010 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: >>> On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <>  wrote: >>> >>>

Re: incompatible environment variable names

2010-08-04 Thread Steven Collins
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:23, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > I came across an interesting (IMHO) incompatibility between > Windows and bash environment variable names. > > I have a Windows environment variable as such: > > C:\>set QNX_VISUAL_C++_PATH > QNX_VISUAL_C++_PATH=C:\Program Files\Orbital Qnx Vis

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-08-02 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:34, Steven Collins <> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:27, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: >> On 7/30/2010 2:15 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >>> >>> If this is BLODA I'm just plain screwed because it is corporate driven >>

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:27, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 7/30/2010 2:15 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >> >> If this is BLODA I'm just plain screwed because it is corporate driven >> and I have no control over it.  This scenario is the biggest reason I >&

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:08, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 7/30/2010 1:36 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:04, Eric Blake<>  wrote: >>> >>> On 07/30/2010 11:03 AM, Steven Collins wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:04, Eric Blake <> wrote: > On 07/30/2010 11:03 AM, Steven Collins wrote: >> shell also fails. I've tried reinstalling dash from startup.exe, but >> that has had no affect. I would have tried the same for ash, but I >> don't see what

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:47, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 7/30/2010 12:37 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:24, Larry Hall (Cygwin)<>  wrote: >>> >>> On 7/30/2010 12:15 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >>>> >

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:24, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 7/30/2010 12:15 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >> >> Is anyone aware of a solution for this issue short of a complete >> reinstall of cygwin? I really need an answer for this. > > <http://cygwin.c

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
@#...@#$@#...@#$@#$! Gmail got me again on the PCYM... At least it was only me this time. I provided the cygcheck.out with the original message. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:24, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 7/30/2010 12:15 PM, Steven Collins wrote: >> >> Is anyone aw

Re: ash start-up issue

2010-07-30 Thread Steven Collins
Is anyone aware of a solution for this issue short of a complete reinstall of cygwin? I really need an answer for this. Thanks, Steven On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 14:37, Steven Collins wrote: > I downloaded and extracted the *nix version of tkdiff under my Cygwin > home directory. When I atte

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread Steven Collins
If you're looking to try out a Linux environment I'd recommend burning one of the Live CD variants of Linux (http://www.livecdlist.com/) and booting it. As has been said before on this list, Cygwin is not Linux, so using Cygwin to make decisions about Linux is most likely not going to be fair to yo

Re: Mirrors

2010-07-13 Thread Steven Collins
http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Regarding your question please see: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00511.html On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:49, Tekerman Romanov <> wrote: > > 2010/6/29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <>: > > On 6/27/2010 1:31 AM, Tekerman Romanov wrote: > >> Hello, we ha

Re: DHCP and resolv.conf

2010-06-27 Thread Steven Collins
I really thought I'd posted this before, but can't find it with Google. I run the attached script, which is mostly a gawk program, from my .bashrc and .profile on my laptop. This ensures that my resolv.conf gets configured correctly for the current network connection each time I start a new interac

Re: 'cp' utility bug when <dest-name>.exe file exist.

2010-06-11 Thread Steven Collins
ariable every place that currently has exe magic? Steven Collins -- 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: 'cp' utility bug when .exe file exist.

2010-06-08 Thread Steven Collins
l to confuse the user due to the aforementioned exe magic, but since the order of evaluation should be clearly defined I don't see that as a real problem. Keeping with the "Do what I say." approach I would expect entering "foo" to execute "foo", unless "foo&q

Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char

2010-05-30 Thread Steven Collins
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 17:35, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Christopher Faylor! > > >> > $ cat >a.dat > >> > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Syst > >> > emBootDevice > > > This trailing NUL character was always there, already with Cygwin 1

Re: 1.7.5: Bug with bash read in /etc/profile.d invocation

2010-05-18 Thread Steven Collins
Look at /etc/profile where it runs the profile.d scripts. The scripts are run with standard input redirected to a here document generated by a find command. That is the source of the "/etc/profile.d/xinit.sh" you're seeing as the answer. The "read" statement in your script is actually consuming on

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-18 Thread Steven Collins
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:39, Gary <> wrote: > Christopher Faylor writes: >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:18:28AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>So my questions remain.  Christopher and Corinna, if you don't think a >>>redesign is a good idea, then please tell us that. >> >> Since you keep insisti

Re: NCurses and Cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Steven Collins
Perhaps the examples are assuming you are controlling the include path via a -I switch to the compiler, thus avoiding any direct reference in the source code that would imply knowledge of your installation? gcc -I /usr/include/ncurses ... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:06, Luis Vital <> wrote: > Hi,

Re: sshd

2010-05-13 Thread Steven Collins
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 14:17, Eric Berge <> wrote: > > > Check the service to see if it's configured using "Services" > under "Administrative Tools" in the control panel. If it is > you might want to check the firewall, but it sounds like it > was working before the update so it shouldn't be that

Re: sshd

2010-05-13 Thread Steven Collins
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 14:08, Andrew Dunstan <> wrote: > What are the Listen_Address and Port settings in the config file? > > cheers > > andrew > Examining /etc/sshd_config: Port 22 #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress :: So the Listen address appears to be defaulting to whatever sshd is inter

Re: sshd

2010-05-13 Thread Steven Collins
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 13:56, Eric Berge <> wrote: > Anything interesting in /var/log/sshd.log or in the event viewer? > > Eric > Empty file. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

sshd

2010-05-13 Thread Steven Collins
Before 1.7.x came out I had sshd working under cygwin. After upgrading it stopped working. I investigated and found the hosts.allow file and made the recommended change there. That got my server working to the point where I can "ssh localhost" and see the hungry-hungry-hippo. :) When I try to ssh i

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread Steven Collins
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:36, Klaus Grue <> wrote: > > In conclusion, I suggest a new term is invented such as the > Cygwin Package Manager (CPM) > or something like that. Then one could simply write > Cygwin Package Manager under the Cygwin icon and then explain in the text > that: > The Cygw

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-10 Thread Steven Collins
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 04:22, Ken Brown <> wrote: > If you run emacs in the cygwin console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment > variable (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) contains tty. Not Found The requested URL /1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html was not found on this ser

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-08 Thread Steven Collins
Hi Berthold, It looks like some folks have already had graphical ideas. When you look at the Message Of The Day (/etc/motd) you'll find an ASCII art hippo. Searching the net for "cygwin hippo" doesn't reveal any clues for the significance of the hippo for the community (anyone care to add details?

Re: cygpath from emacs

2010-05-05 Thread Steven Collins
Not sure why it line wrapped the second comment when I sent this. The part reading "using DOS style paths." is part of the comment line above it. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Steven Collins wrote: > Amazingly enough I solved this problem for myself just yesterday. > > ;;

Re: cygpath from emacs

2010-05-05 Thread Steven Collins
Amazingly enough I solved this problem for myself just yesterday. ;; Add to your .emacs file. ;; Handle locating files containing errors for compilers that report using DOS style paths. (when (eq system-type 'cygwin)   (require 'compile)   (setq compilation-parse-errors-filename-function     '(lam

Emacs scroll bar under Cygwin

2010-05-03 Thread Steven Collins
Is there a way to change the scrollbar behavior in Emacs on Cygwin? On a Linux system the Emacs scroll bar works as one would expect in that you can select the scroll bar with the left mouse button and drag it up and down to move the position in the buffer that displays in the frame. This is also t