Re: Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-04 Thread Andy
Kurt Franke web.de> writes: > just add the following entries to your /etc/passwd file: > > LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: > NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20:: > > this will allow you > chown LocalService ... > or the same with NetworkSe

cygwin permissions problem on a network drive

2011-07-04 Thread Bill Metzenthen
I have problems with permissions on a network drive.  The drive is maintained by others and I have no control over the Windows permissions of the drive. I have a directory on the drive and I can use Windows Explorer to create and write files and subdirectories to it.  I can also use the Windows 'm

Re: Vim segv'ing

2011-07-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:43 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > P.S.: Yaakov, is there any chance to get a 4.5.3 x86_64 cross compiler > package? Yum always tries to replace my x86_64 4.5.1 package with the > 4.5.3 package for i686, but that doesn't work due to missing > dependencies... I have updat

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Geisert
> Any idea of how to debug this? We need some instantaneous version of > lsof or something... Not what you asked for, but useful for debugging stuff like this: FileMon and ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals.com (now a MS site). Just in case you haven't run across them before... ..mark -- Proble

Re: how to connect cygwin using named pipes or virtual serial port from vmware

2011-07-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:32:03PM +0530, abhishek srivastava wrote: >i want to make cygwin connection with VMware using named pipes or >virtual serial? port. > >so,i need to know the process to do so. > >kindly help with it. TCP/IP doesnt really helps. Sorry but, so far, your messages are not c

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > > random source dir to blow away: > > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > > >$

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 8:21 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > random source dir to blow away: > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > >$ > > This seems to happen mo

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less r

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:33 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > >>As an aside: > > >> I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > >> hierarch

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:46 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > As an aside: > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > > time) because files were presumab

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 13:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > I have also seen the rm -rf problem occasionally on my w7-64 > > machine, and I don't think anything from BLODA is installed. > > Also with 1.7.8? Given the minor number of FS-related changes, it's > so very unlik

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>As an aside: > >>I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > >>hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > >>time)

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in us

Re: Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-04 Thread Kurt Franke
Andrew Hancock gmail.com> writes: ... something deleted > > Would it suffice to use chown to force ownership back to the strings > "LOCAL SERVICE" and "NETWORK SERVICE"? Or is something deeper > required to ensure complete and proper ownership transferral? > Andrew just add the following entr

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > As an aside: > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating > the command several times

how to connect cygwin using named pipes or virtual serial port from vmware

2011-07-04 Thread abhishek srivastava
hi i want to make cygwin connection with VMware using named pipes or virtual serial  port. so,i need to know the process to do so. kindly help with it. TCP/IP doesnt really helps. thank you Abhishek Greetings, abhishek srivastava! > i had installed cygwin on windows 7 on which i am plann

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating the command several times would succeed, though. Downgradin