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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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rsync ubuntu to windows under cygwin - way to avoid 'invalid argument 22' error?

I'm doing a backup from a ubuntu server to a windows machine running cygwin. I'm using the following command: rsync -avx --timeout=30 --delete-excluded --exclude '.git' rsync@server.com:/var/www/site/ /cygdrive/c/temp/sitebackuprsync/ Is there a…
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Disable SSH on cwrsyncserver?

I installed cwrsyncserver, the rsyncd.conf makes no mention of ssh and I am not specifying to use ssh when I connect. Yet, the error I get is connection to port 22 refused. My rsyncd.conf is thus: use chroot = false strict modes = false hosts allow…
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Trouble with cwRsync on Windows

I have just setup cwRsyncServer on my 2008 server, it is permitted by the firewall, and I have configured a module with write access. The rsync server is running and listening. I have cnfigured an ssh keypair, and placed the public key in…
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Rsync problem...filenames

I'm trying to back up users Chrome Sessions with Rsync with the following command: rsync -e "ssh -i new.key" -r --verbose -tz --stats --progress --delete \ '/cygdrive/c/Users/jay/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Current Session'…
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CVSROOT problem because of username string

I have always been SVN user but currently I have to use CVS as the source repository. I am quite new to CVS and really got confused many a times (reason being I always tried to access CVS like SVN !) However now I am really stuck in one problem…
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which is the recommended way to install sshd in cygwin on windows 7 enterprise

What is the recommended procedure to install sshd on Windows 7 Enterprise ? I have already installed cygwin and openssh on this computer. i'm open to non-cygwin sshd as long as there won't be any compatibility issues with cygwin related…
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Cygwin sshd service starts but only produces errors

I know this has been asked before, but I looked at the other questions and they didn't help, so here goes... I installed cygwin (only OpenSSH and whatever else it automatically chose for it). I ran the ssh-host-config and entered 'yes' for…
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Can't connect to windows via ssh

I downloaded cygwin and ran ssh-host-config. I'm trying to connect using ssh -l micah myserver it then says micah@myserver's password: I enter the same password I use to log into windows and it says Permission Denied, please try again. After…
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Cygwin Scp or Rsync permissions

Why is it that whenever I Scp or Rsync files from my Windows machine using cygwin to my Ubuntu server. The copied files will all have no permissions. Rsync doesn't even work because it cannot copy files into the folders which don't have the +x…
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rsync doesn't use delta transfer on first run

I'm trying to synchronize a large local directory (with a batch file using rsync 3.0.7 on Cygwin, Windows 7 x64, 30k files, 200gb size) to a remote server (Debian x64 with kernel 2.6, rsyncd 3.0.7) over a slow internet connection (90kbyte/s…
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cygwin termcap issue running top?

When logging in to a Debian Sarge install from cygwin, if I run top the output is "double spaced" for lack of a better word. The end result is that I can see the last few lines for the last few processes, but its not really usable: 28849 root …
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remotely running find -exec options

I'm trying to setup a bash process for deploying my django project onto a linux server. Through cygwin, I'm running a script that is calling scp to copy my files over. Is there a similar command to delete *.pyc files. As of now, I've only been able…
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cygwin, PATH problem?

I run a .ksh containing a awk call. awk.exe and his shortcut awk is in /bin/awk, /bin is in the PATH environment variable. But when I try to launch awk, I have this error message : bash: /usr/bin/awk: no such file or directory Why didn't bash look…
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ksh not find by bash in my cygwin installation but present in the folder bin/ksh with a lnk extension

I have installed cygwin on my windows XP desktop on C:. It works fine except when I launch a .ksh. I had this error message : bash: ./xxx.ksh: /bin/ksh : Bad interpreter:No such file or directory I 've looked in the /bin folder with ls -al ksh and…
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cygwin permissions for executing .bat files

I have a .bat file, which contains the following contents ... jar cfm myjar.jar manifest.txt *.class ... Which executes well under windows command prompt, but when executed under cygwin, I get the following C:\cygwin\home\user\path\to\folder>jar cfm…
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