Re: persistence of Cygwin message after uninstalling Cygwin

2012-08-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/14/2012 5:37 PM, Franckx Laurent wrote: Dear all Although I have (I think) followed completely the instructions for removing Cygwin from my computer, I keep on receiving warning and error messages that are Cygwin related when I work under the Windows command line . When I look at the f

persistence of Cygwin message after uninstalling Cygwin

2012-08-14 Thread Franckx Laurent
Dear all Although I have (I think) followed completely the instructions for removing Cygwin from my computer, I keep on receiving warning and error messages that are Cygwin related when I work under the Windows command line . The complete background to this is as follows: * When I tried to in

FAQ: uninstalling cygwin, permissions related problem

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Osowiecki
Hello, While trying to uninstall Cygwin from Windows7 following FAQ 2.19, I was stuck for quite a long time with file permissions problem, until I finally found out that SSH host key files in /etc have some "Special permissions" which prevent removing them. Windows system was not very helpful sayi

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:13:09PM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: >>Newbies make mistakes. Good newbies learn from them. Bad newbies >don't >and may be accused of bad manners. Spammers, on the other hand, are >just plain evil. > >I think the same about email administrators and programers.

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-14 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
>Newbies make mistakes. Good newbies learn from them. Bad newbies don't and may be accused of bad manners. Spammers, on the other hand, are just plain evil. I think the same about email administrators and programers. Our private email address must not be sent to the email list by the server.

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:52:47PM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: > >-Mensaje original- >de Larry Hall (Cygwin) >Enviado el: martes, 12 de febrero de 2008 16:43 >Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin > >PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: >> -Mensaje original

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
... Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: -Mensaje original- PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: -Mensaje original- DO NOT PUT EMAIL ADDRESSES IN YOUR REPLIES What are you saying ?. We're saying that when you

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-13 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Larry Hall (Cygwin) Enviado el: martes, 12 de febrero de 2008 16:43 Para: cygwin@cygwin.com Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: > -Mensaje original- > PEDRO MACANAS VA

RE: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-13 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
-Mensaje original- Robert Pendell Enviado el: martes, 12 de febrero de 2008 16:39 Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin >You were quoting the header in your replies which contained email addresses in it. It isn't encouraged because it helps spammers out. Your case is particularly di

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:05:57PM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: >-Mensaje original- >PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: > >> -Mensaje original- > >>DO NOT PUT EMAIL ADDRESSES IN YOUR REPLIES > >What are you saying ?. > >Use a better email se

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: -Mensaje original- PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: -Mensaje original- DO NOT PUT EMAIL ADDRESSES IN YOUR REPLIES What are you saying ?. We're saying that when you reply, your email client adds unnecessary

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: | -Mensaje original- | PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: | |> -Mensaje original- | |> DO NOT PUT EMAIL ADDRESSES IN YOUR REPLIES | | What are you saying ?. | | Use a bett

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
-Mensaje original- PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: > -Mensaje original- >DO NOT PUT EMAIL ADDRESSES IN YOUR REPLIES What are you saying ?. Use a better email server and program. Really, you think I am not going to forwarding the Cygwin wiki.

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread Phil Betts
PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: > -Mensaje original- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre ^^^ ^^^ > de Larry Hall (Cygwin) > Enviado el: lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008 16:38 > Pa

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Larry Hall (Cygwin) Enviado el: lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008 16:38 Para: cygwin@cygwin.com Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin If you cannot find the answers you need in the existing documentation or email

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: I have a lot of questions and I cannot see the right place with the answers. So, how can I solve them easily, at a beginner level?. What about not wrong, but non-existing answers ?. If you cannot find the answers you need in the existing documentation or email arc

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-11 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
Enviado el: viernes, 08 de febrero de 2008 19:25 Para: cygwin@cygwin.com Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:24:59AM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: > > >> Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin >> >> Wonderful, me

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:07:47PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Warren Young wrote: >>We have a behavioral psychology problem here, not a technology problem: >>if the item of interest isn't on the first page of results, many will >>stop looking right there and post to the mailing list. They've don

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Warren Young wrote: > We have a behavioral psychology problem here, not a technology problem: > if the item of interest isn't on the first page of results, many will > stop looking right there and post to the mailing list. They've done > their bit, and looked in the FAQ, right? And what I'm (app

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Warren Young
Brian Dessent wrote: FAQ already has a single page version at . I said in my previous message that I was aware of it and want to talk about something else. We have a behavioral psychology problem here, not a technology problem: if the item of intere

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: > In this case it's the Users Guide and not the FAQ that is at issue. The Ooops. Duh, it is the FAQ that we're talking about. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Warren Young wrote: > I think the biggest problem with the FAQ is that the first page you come > to doesn't list all of the questions. You have to figure out what > section to look in first. In this case, we have a problem akin to > Windows' "Start" brain damage: the item on uninstalling is on t

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: Good point. Do you (or anyone) want to suggest some wording for that section of the FAQ? I think the biggest problem with the FAQ is that the first page you come to doesn't list all of the questions. You have to figure out what section to look in first. In this c

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: I have to say that I agree with cgf. I should have looked in the FAQ before, it would have saved some typing. I have had exactly the same issue before and perhaps didn't find the answer at that time.

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:24:59AM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: >>>Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin >>>Wonderful, mer?i beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:24:59AM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin Wonderful, merçi beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this could be so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would be wi

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
in.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR >Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin > >Wonderful, mer?i beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this >could be so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would >be wise to incorporate somewhere in the uninstall documentation on yo

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Remko Arts Enviado el: viernes, 08 de febrero de 2008 10:59 Para: cygwin@cygwin.com Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin Wonderful, merçi beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this could be so

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Remko Arts wrote: > > Wonderful, merçi beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this could be > so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would be wise to > incorporate somewhere in the uninstall documentation on your website, as I > suspect all users running winXP and higher

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Remko Arts
blems when having chacged file ownership. Thanks again. Remko -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sylvain RICHARD Sent: vrijdag 8 februari 2008 10:47 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin Remko Arts wrote: > Hello,

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Remko Arts wrote: Hello, I've installed Cygwin with the ssh package. Now I want to uninstall Cygwin, but get the message Windows is unable to delete .ssh. Seems some exotic file protection is in place Windows can't handle. The only removal instructions I can find for windows are "delete the com

Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-08 Thread Remko Arts
Hello, I've installed Cygwin with the ssh package. Now I want to uninstall Cygwin, but get the message Windows is unable to delete .ssh. Seems some exotic file protection is in place Windows can't handle. The only removal instructions I can find for windows are "delete the complete cygwin directo

Re: problem uninstalling cygwin snapshot 20070813 running in Win XP SP2

2008-01-27 Thread Bayu Adiwibowo
Reini Urban wrote: > 2008/1/26, Bayu Adiwibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Dear Sir/Madame, >> >> Recently I have problem uninstalling cygwin snapshot 20070813 in Windows >> XP SP2, i already search in cygwin mailing list and google for >> "cyglsa.d

Re: problem uninstalling cygwin snapshot 20070813 running in Win XP SP2

2008-01-26 Thread Reini Urban
2008/1/26, Bayu Adiwibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Sir/Madame, > > Recently I have problem uninstalling cygwin snapshot 20070813 in Windows > XP SP2, i already search in cygwin mailing list and google for > "cyglsa.dll problem" but didn't get anything

problem uninstalling cygwin snapshot 20070813 running in Win XP SP2

2008-01-26 Thread Bayu Adiwibowo
Dear Sir/Madame, Recently I have problem uninstalling cygwin snapshot 20070813 in Windows XP SP2, i already search in cygwin mailing list and google for "cyglsa.dll problem" but didn't get anything that looked promising. I already follow uninstalling procedure from Cygwin FAQ

RE: Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ

2007-06-22 Thread Dan M
lp. Dan -Original Message- From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:30 PM To: Dan M; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ

2007-06-20 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan M > Sent: den 19 juni 2007 23:16 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ > > Hello, > > I am trying to uninstall all of Cygwin.

Re: Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ

2007-06-19 Thread René Berber
Dan M wrote: > I am trying to uninstall all of Cygwin. Per FAQs #17 and #16, I did the > following: > > 1. Used the DOS cd command to set the Windows Command Prompt to > C:\cygwin (which is where I installed it). > 2. Entered cygrunsrv -L in the Windows Command Prompt to list the > services I in

Re: Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ

2007-06-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dan M wrote: Hello, I am trying to uninstall all of Cygwin. Per FAQs #17 and #16, I did the following: 1. Used the DOS cd command to set the Windows Command Prompt to C:\cygwin (which is where I installed it). 2. Entered cygrunsrv -L in the Windows Command Prompt to list the services I install

Question about Uninstalling Cygwin FAQ

2007-06-19 Thread Dan M
Hello, I am trying to uninstall all of Cygwin. Per FAQs #17 and #16, I did the following: 1. Used the DOS cd command to set the Windows Command Prompt to C:\cygwin (which is where I installed it). 2. Entered cygrunsrv -L in the Windows Command Prompt to list the services I installed. After th

RE: Uninstalling cygwin

2006-06-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 June 2006 14:16, julien wrote: > I well know this faq that tells to uninstall first all services and to > find them with cygrunsvr -L. But when I type this command, I get a > "command not found". I can't go further. That's ok, you can just skip it; if you haven't installed cygrunsrv in t

Re: Uninstalling cygwin

2006-06-16 Thread julien
I well know this faq that tells to uninstall first all services and to find them with cygrunsvr -L. But when I type this command, I get a "command not found". I can't go further. Thorsten Kampe a écrit : * julien (2006-06-15 06:37 +) I got problems with cygwin under WinXP and I want to uni

Re: Uninstalling cygwin

2006-06-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* julien (2006-06-15 06:37 +) > I got problems with cygwin under WinXP and I want to uninstall it > completely to re-install it correctly. > Cygwin is not in the Windows Configuration panel/Uninstall > > I first deleted the Cygwin root folder and all subfolders, then I > re-installed Gygwin,

Uninstalling cygwin

2006-06-14 Thread julien
I got problems with cygwin under WinXP and I want to uninstall it completely to re-install it correctly. Cygwin is not in the Windows Configuration panel/Uninstall I first deleted the Cygwin root folder and all subfolders, then I re-installed Gygwin, but now, when doing a make to install a prog

Re: Uninstalling cygwin

2004-06-23 Thread Reini Urban
Thorsten Kampe schrieb: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-23 01:56 +0200) A colleague at work is having some problems that are starting to look as though they're due to a permission problem. I note that the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html says that Cygwin has no automatic uninstall facility. Since se

Re: Uninstalling cygwin

2004-06-22 Thread - Barry -
enied. C:\cygwin\usr\share\POSTGR~1\data - Access is denied. C:\cygwin\var\POSTGR~1 - Access is denied. - Original Message - From: "Thorsten Kampe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: Re: Uninstalling cygwin &

Re: Uninstalling cygwin

2004-06-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-23 01:56 +0200) > A colleague at work is having some problems that are starting to look > as though they're due to a permission problem. > > I note that the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html says that Cygwin has > no automatic uninstall facility. Since setup lets you

Uninstalling cygwin

2004-06-22 Thread luke . kendall
A colleague at work is having some problems that are starting to look as though they're due to a permission problem. I note that the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html says that Cygwin has no automatic uninstall facility. Since setup lets you choose to uninstall, is that an error in the FAQ, or ha