Re: Permissions issues after installing Windows 10

2022-06-03 Thread Brent Epp
On 2022-06-02 10:14, Bill Stewart wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 6:44 AM Brent Epp wrote: In the [Security] tab for these files or directories, under "Group or user names", it lists the owner as "Account Unknown(S-...)". In some cases, these files are completely inaccessi

Re: Permissions issues after installing Windows 10

2022-06-02 Thread Brent Epp
On 2022-05-08 10:35, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Brent Epp! I recently (finally) installed Windows 10 on my system (clean install). All of my files are stored in on a secondary drive/partition, on which cygwin is also installed.  I expected to be able to just pick up where I left off, but

Permissions issues after installing Windows 10

2022-05-07 Thread Brent Epp
Windows advanced permissions dialog, change the owner to my user, and set all sub-objects to inheritable permissions, but I'm very leery about mass changes like this. Why did this happen?  And is there a better/safer/correct way to fix this? Thanks  - Brent -- Problem reports: h

Re: Continued rsync failures

2021-05-08 Thread Brent Epp
; /cygdrive/d/path/to/source'/. '/cygdrive/d/path/to/target' trace file: http://cygtestdata.ddnsfree.com/strace.exec2.out Thanks  - Brent On 2021-05-07 13:09, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/7/2021 12:43 PM, Brent Epp wrote: Hello, I've reported this in the past, but I c

Continued rsync failures

2021-05-07 Thread Brent Epp
which is immensely frustrating, as I am heavily dependent on it for work. How can get I this working once and for all? Thanks  - Brent -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs

Re: Rsync frequently hangs

2020-04-17 Thread Brent Epp
Hi Andrey, Thanks, I do have some security software running, but the rsync problem persists when it (the security software) is disabled. Thanks  - Brent Can you expand on this? On 2020-04-17 05:07, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Brent Epp! I have a large collection of custom tooling that

Rsync frequently hangs

2020-04-16 Thread Brent Epp
problem persists. I'm going to do a clean install of cygwin, but if that doesn't solve things, what else can I do?  - Brent -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubs

RE: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?

2020-01-20 Thread Brent Epp
Fair enough. I don't think I've encountered any scripts that modify the system in my use of cygwin, so I didn't think of it. You're correct, "mostly portable" is more accurate. On January 20, 2020 20:33:22 "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin" wrote: Cygwin is totally portab

Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?

2020-01-20 Thread Brent Epp
this numerous times for this exact reason. You may also want to copy the package directory and setup log if you want to update the installation on the clone.  Cheers   - Brent  On January 20, 2020 18:59:09 "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin" wrote: Hi List, I

Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

2019-12-21 Thread Brent Epp
gestion and ran `rebase-trigger full`, closed cygwin windows, and re-ran setup.  It has not resolved the problem, unfortunately.  - Brent On 2019-12-21 08:31, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Brent Epp! I've been using cygwin for years with no problems.  I just updated cygwin again and I suddenl

Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

2019-12-18 Thread Brent Epp
Thanks, but I'm still on Windows 7, so this has no effect.  - Brent On 2019-12-18 05:24, Takashi Yano wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:58:56 -0600 Brent Epp wrote: Hello, I've been using cygwin for years with no problems.  I just updated cygwin again and I suddenly can't get in

Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

2019-12-17 Thread Brent Epp
that I ran the latest installer today to update.  - Brent On 2019-12-17 17:36, Brent Epp wrote: Thanks, I should mention, I did try disabling my .bashrc file and actually my entire user directory... still didn't work. Also, mintty tells me neither of those options are valid? These are the

Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

2019-12-17 Thread Brent Epp
to my original email, the shortcut was actually:`...mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -` The shortcut I previously stated was something I had done as a troubleshooting step and then pasted it into the email by mistake.  - Brent On 2019-12-17 17:17, René Berber wrote: On 12/17/2019 2:58 PM,

mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

2019-12-17 Thread Brent Epp
cut still fails. The shortcut is just the default target: `C:\path\to\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash --login -i` I don't know what else to try.  What happened here and how do I fix this? Thanks  - Brent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Postinstall script errors on cygwin x86 install

2016-08-10 Thread Brent
Achim wrote: >You are obviously not using the R that comes with Cygwin My R is the Windows version of the program. I am not sure what you mean by "the R that comes with Cygwin". I do not think that cygwin comes with its own version R installed by default, like it default installs perl. In f

chere mintty window position

2016-08-08 Thread Brent
Hello. I recently did a clean reinstallation of 32 bit cygwin, and as part of that, downloaded the chere package so that I could get Windows Explorer context menu bash here support. I like my cygwin bash terminal windows to come up maximized by default. So, my usual procedure the first time th

Norton Business Suite identifies minntty as malware

2015-07-13 Thread Brent
On my work computer today, I ran cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe in order to get the latest and greatest code. Soon afterwards, Norton Business Suite autoran, and claimed that the new mintty is malware (to be precise: WS.Malware.2). This has never happened before: both Norton and cygwin (including mi

Re: bug/deficiency in unzip: incompatible with other programs when entry path names have non-ascii chars

2014-11-05 Thread Brent
>On 2014-11-04 22:10, Yaakov wrote: > >>On 2014-11-04 20:08, Brent wrote: >> >>I then reran my complete test suite. Everything now works except the part >>of the test where cygwin unzip is to extract a zip file produced by Java. >>This particular zip file

Re: bug/deficiency in unzip: incompatible with other programs when entry path names have non-ascii chars

2014-11-04 Thread Brent
>On 2014-11-04 18:08, Brent wrote: > >I then reran my complete test suite. Everything now works except the part of >the test where cygwin unzip is to extract a zip file produced by Java. This >particular zip file has entries whose path names are non-ASCII chars. I have >

Re: bug/deficiency in unzip: incompatible with other programs when entry path names have non-ascii chars

2014-11-04 Thread Brent
(Note subject edit to be more accurate) >On 2014-11-04 12:17, Yaakov wrote: > >>On 2014-11-03 21:14, Brent wrote: >> >>Any thoughts on the bug that I found with cygwin unzip regarding its unicode >>handling? >>In particular, cygwin unzip seems to work

Re: bug/deficiency in unzip: large files not supported?

2014-11-03 Thread Brent
On 2014-11-03 15:19:05-0600, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >On 2014-10-30 19:01, Brent wrote: >>I have encountered an inconsistency between cygwin's zip and unzip programs >>that I think reflects a bug (or incomplete implementation) in unzip. >>The issue: zip can successfu

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-11-02 Thread Brent
Doug Henderson wrote: "You need to add the -r option to recurse into directories:" You are 100% correct; my oversight. Actually, it was a copy and paste error: the real code that I want to test does use -r, but when I tried to adapt that code to a simpler format for my email, I accidental

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-10-31 Thread Brent
Nuts, the non-ascii unicode file names that I was using displayed fine when I looked at them in my email program (even in plain text mode), but I see on the mailing list web page (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg1.html) that they display garbled there. To recreate my tests, the unic

bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-10-31 Thread Brent
It seems that cygwin's zip can archive files whose name includes non-ascii (unicode) chars just fine, but if you try to archive a directory whose name includes such chars, it fails. First, I am using the very latest release of cygwin 64 bit: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 yhbrent 1.7.32(0.2

bug/deficiency in unzip: large files not supported?

2014-10-30 Thread Brent
I have encountered an inconsistency between cygwin's zip and unzip programs that I think reflects a bug (or incomplete implementation) in unzip. First, I am using the very latest release of cygwin 64 bit: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 yhbrent 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin An

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-18 Thread Brent Kerr
online for the time being. I'm still open to requests from other projects that would like assistance with their website [3]. Cheers, Brent [1] via email or I can be found on Freenode as HappyPelican [2] http://cygwin.codecamel.com [3] for details regarding 'why' - http://codeca

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-13 Thread Brent Kerr
g cygwin to design and generate the site would be a good result in itself > :) As I said, only a text editor has been used to build the site. Cheers, Brent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-12 Thread Brent Kerr
emes. Feel free to suggest colors/fonts. Cheers, Brent [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/114495 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-11 Thread Brent Kerr
ds compliant. Also, I agree the name "setup.exe" could be improved so perhaps a new thread should be made for that. Cheers, Brent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: cygwin.com website

2010-03-21 Thread Brent Kerr
(Firefox/Safari/Chrome browsers only) * All sizing in "em"s - The layout will be maintained if the user changes the font size. The MinGW-W64 website also displays a live feed from the SourceForge project page. This can be included if you like. Looking forward to further feedback. C

cygwin.com website

2010-03-19 Thread Brent Kerr
Hey, I've whipped up a web template for cygwin.com if you'd like to use it - http://cygwin.codecamel.com/ - (it's what I do). Only the homepage and community page are up there at the moment, but let me know if you want the rest and I'll put it together. Cheers, Brent

RE: Setup.exe error

2008-06-26 Thread Paul, Brent S
Dave, Thanks for the reply. I had done a search for setup.exe problems, but didn't turn that one up. I followed your recommendation of the new setup.exe and that allowed me to install python. Thanks. Brent PS - This is a bug in the current setup.exe as I downloaded

Setup.exe error

2008-06-26 Thread Paul, Brent S
the same way each time (badly). Is there any recourse other than removing my entire Cygwin installation and then trying again? I really don't want to do that. Thanks, Brent --- Brent S. Paul

Python installation error

2008-06-25 Thread Paul, Brent S
vascript:SetCmd(cmdSend);ntire Cygwin installation and then trying again? I really don't want to do that. Thanks, Brent -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: get cygpath to leave relative paths as relative?

2007-12-11 Thread Brent
Corinna wrote: >This is not always possible when converting POSIX paths to Win32 paths >for a couple of reasons. One reason is that a relative path might >contain symlinks, another one is that a path containing .. could cross >mount points. To recognize both cases extra processing is necessary >

get cygpath to leave relative paths as relative?

2007-12-10 Thread Brent
If I execute mypath=`cygpath -w ../` echo $mypath I get d:\unix\nextVersion\script OK, d:\unix\nextVersion\script is the correct windows version of the path, but it is in absolute form. I would prefer it if cygpath left it in relative form, i.e. echo $mypath should output ..

Using pscp.exe with rxvt

2007-04-02 Thread Brent S. Paul
d and it worked fine in the cygwin shell. However, when I fire up a rxvt shell from my cygwin shell it no longer works. And if I just load up the cygwin shell, pscp still works fine. Somehow rxvt isn't sending the keystrokes through to the other server. Thanks, Brent PS - How do I re

Using pscp.exe with rxvt

2007-04-01 Thread Brent S. Paul
g to, as if it never received it. Is there a problem using pscp under rxvt? Thanks, Brent ------ Brent S. Paul -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Difficulties to download Cygwin when no Windows machine is available...

2002-12-30 Thread Brent Frère
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