On Feb 26 00:28, Paul McFerrin wrote: > Corinnia: > I finally got cygwin 1.7 swapped-in to try to reproduce my problem. > Good news, after a few hours of pinging a website, ZERO ERRORS for now. > Since it is an intermittent error, I'll let it run at 6 seconds interval > until tomorrow. > > Now some issues raised with 1.7 ................. > $ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/group > -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 UNKNOWN mkpasswd 74 Feb 25 23:42 /etc/group > -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 UNKNOWN mkpasswd 81 Jan 11 19:06 /etc/passwd
This looks like your passwd and group files are broken. > For BOTH files having write access by everyone, any attemps to edit the > files with "vim" will result on a permament block on OPEN. No EPERM > error code. Now I did NOT upgrade anything elso but just replacing > cygwin1.dll file. I was able to append a new-line to the group file. > When editing group file, "vim group" became "vim -u NONE group" is > procps output. Never saw that before and works normal for me. procps shows `vim group'. Looks like some profile's influence. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
