Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: Setup fails to write help output to logfile [was RE: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content] Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:32:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Rolf Campbell wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> As I've said before, . >> This result from the search I suggested looks promising, if only to get >> the setup options: . See >> also /var/log/setup.log after "setup --help" (yes, it does support this). >> HTH, > > I mostly don't see any output from "setup --help". What does this have to do with ssh? Subject line changed! > I tried deleting the > setup log files from /var/log and ran "setup --help", but no files were > created in "/var/log". It also doesn't work if the files exist. I'm > pretty sure it's not a permission problem cause if I run setup without > any arguments it creates the log files just fine. The weirdest thing is > that it worked once for me about 10 minutes ago. I'm running version > 2.510.2.2. Bizarre, so it does. According to my tests, it now appears to be writing setup.log to whatever is the current directory when you run it. Oops, this looks like a real bug! Now investigating ... BTW, here's the help info, just FYI: 2005/10/25 17:32:27 Starting cygwin install, version 2.510.2.2 2005/10/25 17:32:27 Current Directory: C:\cygwin.src 2005/10/25 17:32:27 Command Line Options: -D --download Download from internet -L --local-install Install from local directory -s --site Download site -R --root Root installation directory -q --quiet-mode Unattended setup mode -h --help print help -l --local-package-dir Local package directory -r --no-replaceonreboot Disable replacing in-use files on next reboot. -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start menu shortcuts -N --no-startmenu Disable creation of start menu shortcut -d --no-desktop Disable creation of desktop shortcut -A --disable-buggy-antivirus Disable known or suspected buggy anti virus software packages during execution. Ending cygwin install cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/