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cygwin provides a Unix/Linux-like environment under Microsoft Windows OSes.

What it doesn't provide is "a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows."

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Strange behavior of SCP through .sh file

I'm hitting a strange issue with SCP on cygwin, scp $HOME/deploy.sh user@host:/tmp works fine, files get copied to the remote system. But the same command inside a test.sh won't work. I can see that scp command output is same as the last stdout,…
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Freshly cloned mirrored drive with Acronis true image and rsync wrongly detects changed files, windows rsync 3.0.7 cygwin windows

Is there a way to help rsync better detect that files are identical? I did a fresh full disk "clone" mirror with Acronis TrueImage and after did an rsync to test and it detected a bunch of files as changed etc. I was copying from C drive, ie Desktop…
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special permissions set to deny on new subfolders of a folder I own with Full Control

I have rsnapshot 1.3.1 installed under cygwin64 (setup 2.870, dll 1.7.35) on win2012r2, all the latest as of today. I configured it to take a single file, current.7z, and make a rotating backup of it. I have sync_first set to 1. When I run…
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cygwin find -ls behaviour like ls

I use cygwin find with -ls (find . -ls) option to have a list of files with full path. Due to UTF-16 (windows XP in this case) converted to en_UTF-8 under cygwin, special charactere like accent are translate into 2 octal escaped value (ex à is…
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How can I flush and/or rotate cronevents?

Can anyone tell me how I can flush / clean / zeroize or better still rotate the contents of cronevents? I need to solve this, because I am attempting to 'productionize' my fileserver instance-pair which rely on some services under Cygwin…
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SSH from Windows hangs when using insert mode in vim on Dreamhost: Why?

I have SSH set up using Cygwin on Windows XP SP3 to Dreamhost. It works fine except that when I edit a file with vi and use insert mode (eg press 'i' and type in some stuff). I then try and hit escape and ZZ to save/exit and it hangs instead. My…
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SSHD on Cygwin: can't connect as "root" from a Linux box

I'm trying to connect a Linux (CentOS 6.5 x64) server and another server, a Windows Server 2008 R2 running Cygwin, and transfer files daily via SSHD from Linux to Windows, and I will use public keys for authentication. The Windows server is…
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"Jailed" user can access `/dev` directory under SFTP

I set up a jail for a remote user under SSH (Cygwin), and he is jailed at /jail/user/home/user. When he connects with some SFTP client (ex: Filezilla), he can access his /home/user folder and control it, but also /dev folder too. In this folder, he…
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"Lock" a certain user to a certain user in SSH (Cygwin)?

I need to give access to a remote user via SSH (Cygwin) in a Windows 2008 R2 box, but the user must see only his /home folder, and cannot read, write or list contents from another folder. The user will access the server via Filezilla. I tried to set…
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Cygwin OpenSSH Server Error 1062

I tried to setup an OpenSSH Server on my Windows machine. I installed cygwin and the openssh package. Then configured "ssh-host-conf" an *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes *** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config…
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Proxy port 80 to 443 with Netcat/nc

I have a Windows server running a Rails application via the Thin ruby gem web server through Cygwin 32 bit. The server only listens on port 443 and uses HTTPS because it is using LDAP authentication and I did not want to have plain text passwords…
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How do I upgrade Postgres database in Cygwin?

I updated some Cygwin packages and now I can't start Postgres: $ /usr/sbin/postmaster FATAL: database files are incompatible with server DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.2, which is not compatible with this…
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Vshadow.exe error in Cygwin, but only over ssh with pubkey auth

I'd like to create a volume shadow copy (vshadow 2.2) from within Cygwin over ssh: $ ./vshadow.exe -p -nw C: (...) - Setting the VSS context to: 0x00000019 Creating shadow set {a5e0883e-9485-4243-8276-1ac7c569ab6a} ... - Adding volume…
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Why doesn't rsync over ssh work when placed inside a FOR loop in a batch file?

I've placed the ff. code in rsync.bat: for %%A in (%VAR_REMOTE_HOST%) do ( set VAR_TARGET=%USER%@%%A:%VAR_TARGET_DIR% echo Rsync Source Dir: %VAR_SOURCE% setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION echo Rsync Target Dir: !VAR_TARGET! endlocal echo…
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Red5 can't find Java

I'm setting up a Red5 server on Cygwin I get this /usr/share/red5$ sh red5.sh Running on CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Unable to locate Java. Please set JAVA_HOME environment variable. However, I can also do this: javac -version and get javac 1.7.0, so I…
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