Re: [PATCH] fix native symlink spawn passing wrong arg0

2025-03-10 Thread Chris Denton via Cygwin
In the absence of other information I assumed the author was the committer but after looking again I *think* the original author of the code may have been Peiyuan Song On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:22:13 + Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches wrote --- > For reference, the oldest version of t

Re: Anomaly in CRON execution of shell script

2024-12-29 Thread Chris Elvidge via Cygwin
On 29/12/2024 at 00:20, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:07:10 + Chris Elvidge wrote: I have a directory of files that I need the contained executables run from CRON. (Like run-parts.) I have found that since 25/12/2024, when run from CRON, it doesn't differen

Anomaly in CRON execution of shell script

2024-12-28 Thread Chris Elvidge via Cygwin
table passwd executable updatedb executable Anyone any ideas where I can look next for what is going wrong? -- Chris Elvidge N Yorks, UK -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html

bash builtin printf date format problem

2024-04-01 Thread Chris Elvidge via Cygwin
\n' [0] ASUS-X550C-WIN!celvi:(pty0):Mon 01 Apr 2024 04:19 pm BST:/home/celvi Works properly on Slackware current and LMDE6. Anyone any ideas? Thanks -- Chris Elvidge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC (CORRECTION)

2023-11-26 Thread Chris Wagner via Cygwin
*** CORRECTION On 2023-11-22 9:53 am, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from c

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

2023-11-26 Thread Chris Wagner via Cygwin
On 2023-11-22 9:53 am, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com to the

Re: Run a Cygwin process with "higher" scheduler priority

2023-10-29 Thread Chris Wagner via Cygwin
On 2023-10-14 7:39 am, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: I know about nice and renice, but I don't see whether it is working or not. Is there anything in /proc which can tell me the current *Windows* scheduler priority level? Or a command line tool? Ced Iarn's TaskInfo will show you the

Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Roehrig via Cygwin
On 2023-06-24 00:12, Kevin Schnitzius wrote: On Friday, June 23, 2023 at 10:00:02 PM EDT, Chris Roehrig via Cygwin wrote: Thanks.  There must be some issue with my setup.   Very odd that 'pv' works, but 'cat' does not.  ldd shows they use identical libs.   I guess I&

Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Roehrig via Cygwin
On 2023-06-23 22:35, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-06-23 20:19, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: Before you resort to trawling through source, did you try a fresh Cygwin install (either to a different directory, or after temporarily moving your current tree)? Sometimes, e.g. if you use the same

Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

2023-06-23 Thread Chris Roehrig via Cygwin
On 2023-06-23 18:26, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: On 6/23/2023 5:19 PM, Chris Roehrig via Cygwin wrote: No worries; I imagine most people don't run sshd on cygwin. Hmm, I'd generally think the opposite, at least for users coming from more UNIXey / Linuxey backgrounds. It l

Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

2023-06-23 Thread Chris Roehrig via Cygwin
06-23 16:27, Voris, Ben wrote: I did not and cannot. Sorry. Fwiw, pushing from Cygwin to the remote also worked. -Original Message- From: Chris Roehrig Sent: 23 June 2023 17:23 To: Voris, Ben Subject: Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes Did you execute the scp on the

Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

2023-06-23 Thread Chris Roehrig via Cygwin
On 2023-06-23 08:28, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-06-23 00:26, Chris Roehrig via Cygwin wrote: I've upgraded cygwin recently (from a much older version) and am encountering a new problem on all my Win10/WIn11 machines. With openssh and pv installed on cygwin (3.4.7-1): dd if=/dev/zero

scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

2023-06-22 Thread Chris Roehrig via Cygwin
I've upgraded cygwin recently (from a much older version) and am encountering a new problem on all my Win10/WIn11 machines. With openssh and pv installed on cygwin (3.4.7-1): dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=65536 | ssh localhost 'cat > /dev/null'    # works dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=65537 | ssh lo

Re: chmod g+s ineffective

2022-07-10 Thread Chris Wagner
On 6/29/2022 9:18 AM, Norton Allen wrote: On one machine I have, chmod g+s fails to set the sticky bit. The >>> command does not return any error, but ls -l continues to show the bit not set. $ mkdir foo $ chgrp flight foo $ chmod g+ws foo $ ls -ld foo drwxrwxr-x+ 1 nor

Re: SSH connection from Linux to Windows by CYGSSHD: port 22

2022-03-31 Thread Chris Roehrig
I recently had to add the following lines to my Cygwin /etc/sshd_config to re-enable RSA in order for my older machines to connect: HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa -- Chris On 2022-03-31 06:18, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Greco Giovanni! must port 22 on

Re: Help with standalone samba SID-uid mapping

2022-01-17 Thread Chris Roehrig
On Mon Jan 17 2022, at 4:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 14 11:57, Chris Roehrig wrote: >> On Fri Jan 14 2022, at 2:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >>> These look like your standard Windows SIDs, so they are your SIDs for >>> users cristina and

Re: Help with standalone samba SID-uid mapping

2022-01-14 Thread Chris Roehrig
On Fri Jan 14 2022, at 2:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 13 14:39, Chris Roehrig wrote: >> I'm trying to set up samba (standalone) following these instructions: >> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-samba >> >> but I'm

Help with standalone samba SID-uid mapping

2022-01-13 Thread Chris Roehrig
ut it doesn't seem to have any effect ('net user croehrig' shows the comment is indeed present). I guess I don't understand how that comment field works. Anyone have any advice? Thanks, -- Chris -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Installation of cygwin failing

2021-12-16 Thread Chris Macdonald
est another way of installing it? Many thanks Chris Macdonald -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-24 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2021-11-10 3:39 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: To the contrary. The problem is the ambiguity that "X:/foo" might be either the absolute POSIX path $CWD/X:/foo, or the absolute DOS path "X:\foo". I have a patch which fixes your case, but not much else. The problem is that we historic

cat fifo hang [Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.2.6c1f49f83fde (TEST)]

2021-10-17 Thread Chris Roehrig
On Sun Oct 17 2021, at 9:19 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 10/16/2021 1:42 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote: >> On Mon Sep 27 2021, at 7:26 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin >> wrote: >>> On 9/26/2021 8:57 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote: >>>> I have installed this (completel

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.2.6c1f49f83fde (TEST)

2021-10-16 Thread Chris Roehrig
On Mon Sep 27 2021, at 7:26 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 9/26/2021 8:57 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote: >> I have installed this (completely this time) and have encountered no issues >> with it. I'm getting full gigabit speeds with my rsync transfers. Looks >&

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.2.6c1f49f83fde (TEST)

2021-09-26 Thread Chris Roehrig
I have installed this (completely this time) and have encountered no issues with it. I'm getting full gigabit speeds with my rsync transfers. Looks great! -- Chris On Fri Sep 24 2021, at 6:53 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote: > The following packages h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.1.9814cfd8f693 (TEST)

2021-09-18 Thread Chris Roehrig
with rsync. I too have been following all the pipe rework on Cygwin-developers and want to express my appreciation for Takashi, Ken and Corinna for tackling this.You folks have made Cygwin so much more usable for a lot of applications! -- Chris On Fri Sep 17 2021, at 1:33 PM, Ken Brown via C

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-09-03 Thread Chris Roehrig
On Fri Sep 3 2021, at 12:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [resent, this time with the ML in To] > > On Sep 2 12:03, Chris Roehrig wrote: >> >> On Thu Sep 2 2021, at 8:25 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin >> wrote: >>> On 9/1/2021 5:11 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote:

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-09-02 Thread Chris Roehrig
On Thu Sep 2 2021, at 8:25 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 9/1/2021 5:11 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote: >> I rebuild procps 3.3.17.29-2480 from source and it appears to work, so maybe >> the stock procps package is incompatible with the current master branch. > > Maybe, b

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-09-01 Thread Chris Roehrig
ere was an undefined siginfo_t.si_int in ./lib/test_process.c which I just commented-out to get it to build. -- Chris On Tue Aug 31 2021, at 1:23 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote: > I did a 'git pull' of the latest topic/pipe and rebuilt and I now do indeed > get 100MB/s transfer

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-31 Thread Chris Roehrig
I did a 'git pull' of the latest topic/pipe and rebuilt and I now do indeed get 100MB/s transfers using both rsync and scp (without pipe_byte). (It turns out last time I forgot 'make install' -- Doh!) I still get the procps error however. On Tue Aug 31 2021, at 12:53 PM,

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-31 Thread Chris Roehrig
ckage), it appears to be a mmap() failure. I'm wondering if I built/installed cygwin1.dll correctly because I don't get the procps error using the latest stock cygwin1.dll as installed by setup_x86_64. -- Chris On Tue Aug 31 2021, at 12:05 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 8

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-30 Thread Chris Roehrig
g the main branch build). I first updated my cygwin normally using setup-x86_64.exe, then built and copied only the cygwin1.dll into /bin from the install/bin directory (quitting all cygwin tasks first). On Sun Aug 29 2021, at 3:24 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 8/29/2021 3:24 PM, Chris

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-29 Thread Chris Roehrig
I'd be happy to test it out if you can give me some commands to git it and build it to replace my existing stock Cygwin installation. (Or it is just the cygwin.dll I'd need to replace?) My daily backup scripts use a lot of pipes and named pipes. -- Chris On Sun Aug 29 2021, at 8:

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-25 Thread Chris Roehrig
revisited?It seems to be affecting pure-UNIX situations (in my case) which is Cygwin's core audience. - Chris On Wed Aug 25 2021, at 11:18 AM, Chris Roehrig wrote: > On Wed Aug 25 2021, at 10:52 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin > wrote: >> A couple years ago I had an idea for

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-25 Thread Chris Roehrig
CYGWIN environment option to switch the pipe behaviour without requiring changes to the ssh or rsync source code (and without breaking any existing stuff)? - Chris > On 8/25/2021 7:18 AM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:49:52 -0700 >> Chris Roehrig wro

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-25 Thread Chris Roehrig
M, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:49:52 -0700 > Chris Roehrig wrote: >> I have a network of Windows, Linux and Mac machines and I use rsync to >> synchronize various directories between them. >> >> I'm trying to figure out why my rsync

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-25 Thread Chris Roehrig
It was set to "Programs".Changing it to "Background services" didn't make a difference. TCPOptimizer can adjust 2 registry entries that I think are related to that Windows Setting: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile] "NetworkT

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-24 Thread Chris Roehrig
ex that limits "non-multimedia" packets to 10 per millisecond which can be disabled by setting: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile] "NetworkThrottlingIndex"=dword: but this made no difference to my tests.

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-24 Thread Chris Roehrig
bigfile.bin $WINHOST:/tmp/ # slow, dropping to 4MB/s I get the same results transferring the other direction (WIN -> LINUX): The Cygwin remote endpoint is always slow. On Tue Aug 24 2021, at 4:43 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > Chris Roehrig wrote: >> I have a network of Wind

cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-24 Thread Chris Roehrig
n from cygrunsrv+sshd (I've tried --bwlimit=0 on the client which makes no difference). Any ideas? Not sure where to go from here. Thanks, -- Chris Windows 10 v2004 (64-bit) CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin rsync version 3.2.4dev protocol version

package list for easy install like a typical distro

2021-05-07 Thread Chris via Cygwin
Hi, Is there an easy way to install cygwin that is similar to most linux distros, like typical X packages , desktop environment and other typical things, other than the pain of selecting one by one or entire categories? Thanks Chris -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

LyX becomes unresponsive to mouse

2021-01-30 Thread Chris Marshall
I plan to try the native LyX for windows to see if I can get LyX running for the near term. V/r, Chris -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Windows 2019 support?

2020-09-17 Thread Chris Bovitz via Cygwin
2016. To me, this implies that Windows Server 2019 is supported, but is that true? If so, could the FAQ be updated to show that? Thanks. Chris -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com

Re: wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

2020-05-19 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-19 6:49 am, Andrey Repin wrote: Then take a look at this thread: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/thread.html#174 You'll need correctly configured LANG and CYGWIN's glob option. That info should definately be in the FAQ. Although I would still consider this behavior

Re: wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

2020-05-18 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-18 8:40 am, jeff wrote: I have a directory that has some files with odd files. I can do a 'ls', successfully. However if I do a 'ls *'' I get: ls: cannot access '*': No such file or directory Here is ls output: 'Highlander-S03E21-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_I-22.mkv' 'Highlander-S03E22-Fi

Re: Groups command failing me in Windows 10

2020-05-12 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-12 3:45 pm, David wrote: The groups command in the cmd window on Windows 10 shows None as my first group. When I use the dir command to create a file, the security display shows no error. When I use the touch command to create a file, I get "The permissions on ... are incorrectly orde

Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT

2020-05-11 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-11 12:53 pm, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: I would just like to chime in that it would be a crying shame if Cygwin were to ever drop support for Windows 7. There are many people, myself one, who are dead set against Windows 10. "Ever"?!? You do realize that, ESU aside, Windows 7 is out

Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT

2020-05-11 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-05 5:05 am, Rainer Emrich wrote: Hi Corinna, Am 05.05.2020 um 10:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600. Setting them to 0x0602 sounds like a good idea, but as long as we didn't drop Vi

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
re user session. May I ask, why do you say "--reuse" is a very bad idea? I'd be interested to know in general, not just when considering this change. Best wishes, Chris. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/fa

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
gnome-ssh-askpass.fish set -x SSH_ASKPASS "/usr/libexec/gnome-ssh-askpass" Is there any mileage in the argument that if we do this for Gnome's SSH helper, we can also reasonably do it for ssh-pageant? I'll leave this for now and see whether anyone else has an opinion. Be

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
On 23/04/2020 17:40, Chris Rodgers wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: >/Would it be acceptable to update the ssh-pageant package to add a file />//etc/profile.d/ssh-pageant.sh that does this automatically? /Does what? Add something to other users' profiles? P.S. I realise I may have b

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
teractively whether they wish to configure the profile setting? BW Chris. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
a postinstall script? I'd be happy to draft a script file for review. Thanks, Chris. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

lpr in duplex mode

2020-04-03 Thread Chris Pickett
Hi, I searched for this but no luck. Cygwin's lpr doesn't print from stdin in duplex mode for me. Is this normal? Is there a way to change it? If you need more details I can provide them. Thanks, Chris -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Mailing list issues

2020-03-09 Thread Chris Wagner
Hi folks, I'm having some issues with getting mail from this list. The first one is that I'm getting a decent number of messages diverted into spam holding over protocol violations. For example this one has two reply-to headers. Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.

Re: about downloading Cygwin using linux

2020-01-11 Thread Chris Wagner
The first thing to consider is that Windows XP is no longer supported by the main Cygwin code base. https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html If you really need to install on XP, you'll have to find a snapshot of the last repository that supported it. That would be anything prior to Cy

Re: bug with grep 3.0.2 in cygwin 3.0.7

2019-09-22 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-08-28 3:16 am, ak...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I encounter some problem with grep option -E on cygwin 3.0.7 echo "a^b" | grep "a^b" #answer a^b ie it's OK but echo "a^b" | grep -E "a^b" #answer nothing " for me it's KO I have to backslash ^ to be OK like : grep -E 'a\^b' Is-it a bug ? I do

Re: find command seems to lock files

2019-08-25 Thread Chris Wagner
the file. This means that the link count cannot be determined and file attributes may be out of date if additional hardlinks to the file exist. On the other hand, not opening the file is considerably faster, especially for files on network drives. -Chris -- Problem reports:

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-08-15 Thread Chris Wagner
program. Thanks. On 2019-07-16 1:37 am, Achim Gratz wrote: Chris Wagner writes: Of course it's up to date... I'll let that stand, although I've seen sufficiently many Win7 systems lately to be wary of any such statement. That is not BLODA. That's the standard list of l

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: Chris Wagner writes: For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl stopped working. There was no error message. It just silently died with status 0 no less. Windows 7 SP1. Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a

Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Chris Wagner
Hi folks. For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl stopped working. There was no error message. It just silently died with status 0 no less. Windows 7 SP1. $ /usr/bin/perl.exe -v $ echo $? 0 So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction. Any ideas? Tha

Re: Windowless Perl

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-06-10 3:24 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: Chris Wagner writes: Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. Because nobody needs it? Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command console

Windowless Perl

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Wagner
Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command console to pop up. I've had it before in other distros but it would be super handy to execute com

Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

2019-06-06 Thread Chris Wagner
It won't work if the terminal window was started in administrator mode. Something to do with Windows's security isolation. On 2019-06-06 12:26 am, Academy OfFetishes wrote: Hello, I tried to google for this but couldn't find anyone with the same problem. I'm using mintty 3.0.1 and cygwin

Re: Trying to create default ACL entries to match file ACL entries

2019-06-04 Thread Chris Wagner
test packages. HTH, Chris -- 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: cygrunsrv --install --user : avoid having to enter the user's password

2019-05-20 Thread Chris Wagner
me -t manual -p /c/foo.exe -u name}; $io->spawn(@cmd); printf "read: %s\n", $io->read; printf "write: %s\n", $io->write("foo\n"); printf "read: %s\n", $io->read; printf "write: %s\n", $io->write("foo\n"); printf "read: %s\n

Re: How to become root/root (0/0)

2019-05-08 Thread Chris Johmson
want to be root in cyg terminal,yes?  Have you tried right click on cyg terminal an Run as admibisrator? -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer /Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. /(Brendan Gill) -- Problem reports:

Re: ezmlm warning

2019-05-06 Thread Chris Wagner
Maintainers, I have been getting numerous bounce warnings and spam holds on mail sent to me by the list. The spam holds are due to protocol violations. This ezmlm warning is because of: 550 Messages should have one or no Sender headers, not 2. If the list software could be made more complian

Re: Are my emails being filtered out?

2019-04-17 Thread Chris Wagner
I too have had ongoing issues getting Cygwin mail. My spam package regularly filters out emails for "protocol" violations which I then have to notice and release. Some were for having multiple Reply-To headers. I even got a notice from the list stating that email to me had been bouncing. So

Re: base-files revisited

2019-04-07 Thread Chris Wagner
Personally I wouldn't want to see yet another .directory in home. Endless fractionation of config is one of the things about unix that irks me. This is not to say that there aren't perfectly valid use cases for YACF (yet another config file). Perhaps this would be best served by a new shell

Re: cygpath -u converts quoted UNC paths to local

2019-04-03 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-04-03 12:20 pm, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, All! This can be considered "working by design", but it really imposes some serious restrictions on interoperability with Cygwin, that I think can be avoided. ... After some further testing, this seems to be affecting IP-based UNC path

Re: Compile perl Win32::OLE module

2019-03-29 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-03-29 9:43 pm, Massimo Balestra wrote: Thank you Chris for answering. But the problem is not during the test, but during the compilation itself (make). Yes, I know I could use ActiveState, but I don't want to have two perl installed on my pc. For me it is more important to have c

Re: Compile perl Win32::OLE module

2019-03-29 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-03-29 3:56 pm, Massimo Balestra wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile the module Win32::OLE but it fails. I searched on Google and I did not find any good suggestion. Can anyone help me? This is what I get: (This is from cpan but it is the same if I compile manually downlaoding the tar packag

Dependancy Hell (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9)

2019-03-28 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-03-28 7:36 am, Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is disinge

Re: cat.exe failing silently with exit status 3

2019-03-27 Thread Chris Wagner
Thanks for the responses. The uname output was already in my attachment. I executed cat as /usr/bin/cat.exe. Cygcheck cat is also in my original attachment. I attached the cygcheck -svr. The other Cygwin installations referenced are from my debugging and are not active. The missing Perl f

cat.exe failing silently with exit status 3

2019-03-26 Thread Chris Wagner
Hi all. A few days ago I noticed that cat.exe was failing without printing any output or errors and exiting with status 3. I tried rebooting, updating my Cygwin, even a fresh install of Base only. I removed all recently installed Windows software and nothing changed. What's truly strange is

Re: opengl render size too small in X11 window

2018-10-14 Thread Chris Marshall
or another window, then clicking on the graphics window will select and activate correctly. --Chris On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:21 AM Chris Marshall wrote: > The initial render of the OpenGL content now fills the xwindow area but if > you resize the window making it larger then the opengl c

Re: opengl render size too small in X11 window

2018-10-14 Thread Chris Marshall
take screen shots that illustrate the problem but I don't have a way to get them to you. --Chris On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:01 AM Chris Marshall wrote: > Will do. > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:13 AM Jon Turney > wrote: > >> On 11/10/2018 18:40, Chris Marshall wrote: &g

Re: opengl render size too small in X11 window

2018-10-14 Thread Chris Marshall
Will do. On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:13 AM Jon Turney wrote: > On 11/10/2018 18:40, Chris Marshall wrote: > > I've verified that if I use the -nowgl option for the X11 server then the > > opengl visualization is correctly rendered and sized for the containing > > wind

Re: opengl render size too small in X11 window

2018-10-11 Thread Chris Marshall
I've verified that if I use the -nowgl option for the X11 server then the opengl visualization is correctly rendered and sized for the containing window. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:15 PM Chris Marshall wrote: > Dear Cygwin- > > Using cygwin X11 under windows 10 with a hi

opengl render size too small in X11 window

2018-10-10 Thread Chris Marshall
-multiwindow support for OpenGL contexts. This is with a couple of versions of the freeglut libraries with no effect and the current cygwin and cygwin X Server. Thanks, Chris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

cygwin's subversion-1.10 broke zsh's svn-completion

2018-05-03 Thread Chris via cygwin
now if I should direct this issue here, to zsh or subversion, but since it does works in Linux, I suspect this is the right place. When pressing tab after writing "svn ", I'm getting: _svn:33: bad set of key/value pairs for associative array Anyone has any ideas? /Chris

Re: x3270

2018-04-17 Thread Chris Johnson
x3270 is still an active package run /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh from bash and if you have no error rename it as /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh.done Regards Marco All the x3270.sh file did was define a few shell variables.  It didn't fail and the rename worked. Thank you. -- Chris Jo

x3270

2018-04-14 Thread Chris Johnson
hanks. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer /I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. /(Woody Allen) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

file-5.30 is broken, please update to file-5.32

2018-03-17 Thread Chris Renshaw
r your consideration, Chris

cron running but not executing user crontab

2018-01-15 Thread Chris Johnson
on it.  Normally, under *nix this  would put the results of date in dt.txt in the home directory.  Not there. Just isn't running anything as far as I can tell. Any suggestions.  I'd like to get this working.  Want am I missing? Help  appreciated.  Thank you -- Chris Johnson rchr

Re: Cygwin sshd doesn't use domain user names on boot up

2017-12-07 Thread Chris Wilson
On 12/5/17 12:17 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: Did you install the service by running ssh-host-config? Yes. FYI, I had to run ssh-host-config as a domain user. When I first ran it as a local Administrator, the ssh-host-config script printed the following: *** Info: User 'cyg_server' has been cr

Cygwin sshd doesn't use domain user names on boot up

2017-12-05 Thread Chris Wilson (chwilso3)
u...@build-slave.example.com ~ $ pwd /home/myuser Anybody have an idea what's going on here? I'm not sure why the username isn't picked up correctly when sshd starts up initially after a reboot. Is there some kind of dependency that needs to be added to the sshd service on boot? Than

libUSB-Win32

2017-06-12 Thread Chris Johnson
ed to install this driver. Does anybody know; What this is? What it does? What uses it? Why it isn't part of the cygwin packages apparently? Tnx. -- Chris, (from the laptop) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: Moving forward from cygwinports

2017-04-04 Thread Chris Davies
is not Cygwin. Cygwin is alive and kicking; cygwinports.org was closed down last week (or so). Please see http://cygwinports.org/ for reasons. Regards, Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Moving forward from cygwinports

2017-04-04 Thread Chris Davies
lighten me, please? Much appreciated. Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Windows Path issue with maven/java on cygwin ("/C:/cygwin64/git...")

2017-01-13 Thread Chris Brokes
First time sending an email to the list. Thanks for all the patience of everyone involved. Due to a work requirement, I'm trying to get the following working: git - repository successfully downloaded. Original code was written for linux and is java based java - Windows java JDK 8u112 apparent

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: astyle-2.06-1

2017-01-03 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mksh-54-1

2016-11-18 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Chris S

python-gdal is broken by libproj9 4.9.3-1 update

2016-11-07 Thread Chris
Hello, in python-gdal 2.1.1-1 _gdal.dll still uses cygproj-9.dll, but it was replaced with cygproj-12.dll in libproj9 4.9.3-1 so the import fails.   I was able to get a working system by downgrading libproj9 to 4.9.2-1 and libgeotiff2 to 1.4.1-1. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl

How to remove a nirror from the cygwin set x86 64 mirrors list.

2016-10-29 Thread Chris Johnson
n't find it anywhere. Thank you. -- Chris, (from the laptop) -- 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

Blocking a base package from installing

2016-10-06 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I'm using a self compiled vim, so I uninstalled vim-minimal. Every time I run setup to get the latest updates, setup attempts to reinstall vim-minimal - is there a way to make setup ignore vim-minimal? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mksh-53a-1

2016-08-30 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
ll* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Chris Sutcliffe -- 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: SSH Home Directory

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 28 June 2016 at 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 28 09:38, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> I have my $HOME path setup as /cygdrive/c/Users (using Windows 7) >> however ssh doesn't seem to honour that. When I fire up ssh, I get: >> >> Could not creat

Re: SSH Home Directory

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 28 June 2016 at 09:58, Mark Hansen wrote: > On 6/28/2016 6:38 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> I have my $HOME path setup as /cygdrive/c/Users (using Windows 7) >> however ssh doesn't seem to honour that. When I fire up ssh, I get: >> >> Could not create directory

Re: Syntax for sed .. altered?

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
pe f | xargs md5sum >> still works just fine. 6000 files in less than a second.) >> Fergus >> > > sed is unchanged from at least 2013, so it must be something else. Is is possible that this is related to a change in the Cygwin library? Fergus, what version of Cygwin are you running?

SSH Home Directory

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I have a .ssh directory with my private key in /cygdrive/c/Users/csutlif. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

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