Re: bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-29 Thread Wes Barris
On 4/29/2022 6:09 PM, Takashi Yano wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:21:01 -0500 Wes Barris wrote: For the past couple of months the latest versions of cygwin produce this error when attempting to reference a network drive. There have been a couple of other threads reporting this and talk about

bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-29 Thread Wes Barris
,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) W: on /cygdrive/w type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) -- Wes Barris -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

Re: problem with curl-7.64.1-1 not returning any data

2019-05-08 Thread Wes Barris
C:\Users\xx>cmd /c ver Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.165] xx@CVI-5501L> which -a curl /bin/curl I've changed my username and domain in the attached file. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are

Re: Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups

2010-03-09 Thread Wes Barris
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mar 9/3/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mar 9/3/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: Wes Barris wrote: I use Cygwin 1.7 on my XP desktop system at work. I like having the same home directory on this Windows XP system as I do on our Unix server. The

Re: Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups

2010-03-08 Thread Wes Barris
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mar 9/3/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: Wes Barris wrote: I use Cygwin 1.7 on my XP desktop system at work. I like having the same home directory on this Windows XP system as I do on our Unix server. The Windows XP system is a member of a domain. The Unix server is

Re: Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups

2010-03-08 Thread Wes Barris
Wes Barris wrote: I use Cygwin 1.7 on my XP desktop system at work. I like having the same home directory on this Windows XP system as I do on our Unix server. The Windows XP system is a member of a domain. The Unix server is not. The Unix server is running Samba and is configured with a

Re: 1.7.1-1: ImageMagick seems to lack jpeg support

2010-03-08 Thread Wes Barris
oblems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Wes Barris Today's fortune: There is

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-03-07 Thread Wes Barris
perl-5.10 removed m4/openm4.m4 by Reini Urban Volker, should I upload it? Yes, please. I'm around, but life was interfering - I didn't get to this so far. Thanks, Volker Did this ever get uploaded? -- Wes Barris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/2/2010 10:25 PM, Wes Barris wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/2/2010 9:21 PM, Wes Barris wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Do you *actually* own the files? What kind of drive is this; network or local? NTFS or FAT? This is a second drive in my XP system. The

Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/2/2010 9:21 PM, Wes Barris wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Do you *actually* own the files? What kind of drive is this; network or local? NTFS or FAT? This is a second drive in my XP system. The drive contains all of my data. One of the folders/directories on this

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote: My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains all of my data including a folder that I wish to use as my home directory (W: is mapped to //mycomputer

Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 02/03/2010 05:57, Wes Barris wrote: I'm trying to find a solution for my files being listed with '' as the owner and group: -rw-r--r-- 1 137894 2010-02-25 11:34 1536.gff The following page partially addresses this: http://www.cy

Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
e mount options for /cygdrive? -- Wes Barris Today's fortune: Memory should be the starting point of the present. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 01/03/2010 23:08, Wes Barris wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case both are 4294967295. I manually edi

Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 03/01/2010 09:57 PM, Wes Barris wrote: I'm trying to find a solution for my files being listed with '' as the owner and group: -rw-r--r-- 1 137894 2010-02-25 11:34 1536.gff The following page partially addresses this: http:/

Resolving '????????' users and groups

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
to modify the /etc/passwd file so that it shows me as the owner of these files instead of ''. That page shows how /etc/passwd is used to create a mapping between Windows Security SIDs and Cygwin uids. How do I find/list the Windows SIDs of these files so that I can create the pr

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files accordingly so that my

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
Pavel Kudrna wrote: Wes Barris wrote: On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote: I have installed cygwin on many systems. ... a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks as the owner and group fields like this: drwxrwxrwt+ 1

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote: I have installed cygwin on many systems. One thing that has always bugged me is that I have to muck around with the uid and gid in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in order to get things working. The mkpasswd and mkgroup commands

How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-02-28 Thread Wes Barris
010-01-10 17:13 Projects What is the correct procedure for getting this set up correctly? -- Wes Barris -- 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: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1

2010-01-18 Thread Wes Barris
> > From: Jeenu V > > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 02:48 > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Re: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1 > > > > I'm now using UTF-8 encoding on PuTTYCyg and the man pages look fine. > > Could > > somebody tell me how to search for '-' on the man page, so that I can > > qui

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-18 Thread Wes Barris
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mer 6/1/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1. I noticed that the available version of perlMagick is incompatible with the available version of perl. The perlMagick package is built against perl 5.8 but the perl package is 5.10. perl-Graphics

Weird characters in man pages

2010-01-06 Thread Wes Barris
Now man pages have fat half-height vertical bars instead of '-' characters. I don't know if this is a Putty, Puttycyg, or Cygwin issue. I am asking here in case anyone has any insight about this issue. Thanks. -- Wes Barris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-05 Thread Wes Barris
I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1. I noticed that the available version of perlMagick is incompatible with the available version of perl. The perlMagick package is built against perl 5.8 but the perl package is 5.10. -- Wes Barris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

ssh and scp connect intermittently

2009-11-23 Thread Wes Barris
Hi, I have cygwin installed on several WindowsXP systems. When trying to use ssh or scp to connect or send files to a remote system, the commands usually work the first few times but then they reliably hang. The problem I am having is exactly the same as one that was reported on this list about