RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-20 Thread FischRon.external
> Are you saying that your ssh may use a different cygwin1.dll than the > rest of the system? No, I took care about this, so this can't be the reason Ronald -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:15 AM Subject: RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS >> Now, there are still three mysteries. >> The first is why having uid = 400 make

RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-15 Thread FischRon.external
> Yes, it's a Window permission problem as you have > identified. The "bad" files were probably created by a > Windows program, or by Cygwin with nontsec. The "good" > files were created by Cygwin with ntsec. > The "bad" files inherit insufficient default permissions, > which don't give > the own

RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-14 Thread FischRon.external
> Your problem is really baffling. > Recreating /etc/passwd should have no negative effect, > and editing the uid in /etc/passwd should not matter. > > - Are there perhaps two FischRon on the machine, a domain > user and a local user? No, but could it be that there is a problem with upper/lowerca

RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-13 Thread FischRon.external
> [Hmm, you still haven't set your emailer to use an outgoing > name, I would like to, but I don't know how to do it. Actually, my colleagues at work have the same problem, and don't know how to deal with it. Unfortunately we are restricted in what mailer we use, and I haven't found yet an opti

Re: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to FischRon.external infineon com on 7/12/2005 8:18 AM: [Hmm, you still haven't set your emailer to use an outgoing name, and I still don't know how to make Thunderbird supress raw email addresses in that case.] >>Cygwin 1.3.22? Wow, tha

RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-07-04 Thread FischRon.external
> [OT: Your mailer is not providing a name alongside your email > address, so > I had to manually munge the address. Thank you for pointing this out! I was not aware of it, but was able to reproduce it. It really puzzles me. I'm forced to use here Microsoft Outlook via Exchange, and I had thoug

Re: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-06-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to FischRon.external AT infineon DOT com on 6/30/2005 1:25 AM: [OT: Your mailer is not providing a name alongside your email address, so I had to manually munge the address. Mozilla Thunderbird automatically avoids quoting email addresses i

RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-06-30 Thread FischRon.external
> Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. Sorry, won't happen again. > >>-Original Message- > According to FischRon.external AT infineon DOT com on > 6/28/2005 6:50 AM: > > $ getfacl -a x y > > # file: x > > # owner: fischron > > # group: mkgroup_l_d > > user::rwx > > group::--- > > group:Admini

Re: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. >>-Original Message- >>From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9 AT byu DOT net] ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR >>My quick guess is that ACLs are at work. Compare the output >>of

RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-06-28 Thread FischRon.external
Thank you for your suggestions. Below you see the result for file x (this is a file which does not work) and file y (which is a file where chmod works): $ getfacl -a x y # file: x # owner: fischron # group: mkgroup_l_d user::rwx group::--- group:Administrators:rwx mask:rwx other:--- # file: y # o

Re: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/28/2005 2:51 AM: > When I create a new file, behaviour depends on how I create it: > >touch new_file1 >chmod 0777 new_file1 > > => works fine. > But when I open a text editor, from within the editor create