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."
Questions tagged [cygwin]
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SSH connecting on port 22 but times out on 443
I'm trying to connect to an ssh sever running on cygwin on my home computer through putty on my laptop, this works fine both inside my network and outside on port 22 but on port 443 it times out. Which is a bit of a problem as the network I'm going…
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Cygwin sshd won't start
Getting the below error msg while starting the cygwin services on windows 2003 server , the SSHD file is showing 0KB.
$ net start sshd
The CYGWIN sshd service is starting.
The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started.
The service did not report an…
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How to replace a certain path from the PATH variable?
I am using Cygwin and would like to modify the following PATH via bash shell:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VSTSDB/Deploy:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio…
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cygwin bash getting last modified userid of a specific file
I am trying to get the username of the person who modified a specific file:
stat -c "%u" somefilename.name
this script returns a number like 544
what does that mean? i was hoping to get the username like myUsername?
Alex Gordon
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cygwin's xd. what package is it in?
I am looking for the unix utility xd for Cygwin. What package do I need to install?
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Cygwin find integration
I would like to find all NON read-only files in my directory using cygwin's find command.
Is it possible ?
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Error starting cygwin sshd on Windows 8
After installing sshd via cygwin on Windows 8 on a system that is not on a domain, the service will not start but gives an error such as:
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.
Looking at the service it shows no dependencies.…
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How to install cygwin additional packages?
how to install the additional packages like gcc, gcc-objc, gcc-g++, make, patch, xorg-x11-base, xorg-x11-devel. The basic package is installed.
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Run Windows Explorer on remote system from its cygwin shell through SSH
Please consider my problem :)
1) I Have a Windows 7 - x64 system with cygwin installed and SSHD running.
2) From another Windows machine , from futty, SSH to the above machine.
3) Command "TaskKill /IM explorer.exe /F" to kill explorer. Success!
4)…
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