Re: permissions/owners seen on cygwin-client vs. server

2007-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 20:06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: > >I get two different views of my server's "/home" directory > >depending on if I'm on the server or under cygwin on a client. > > > >On the server, I see things like: > >drwsrwsrwt 2 lin users 14 Nov 24 2006 NT_Perflog

Re: rsync problems from Vista installed cygwin, ok on XP

2007-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 13 05:28, DaveB wrote: > > My cygwin on Vista seems to work but when I try to do rsync to fixup files on > my unix ftp server, it chokes with lots of errors and does a bizarre reset > of the permission bits for the destination folder. Here's what happens: > [this is the same rsync command

Re: File creation time oddity (new findings)

2007-08-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redirecting to the list - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE According to Ronald Fischer on 8/17/2007 1:46 AM: >>> ~/thome/tmp $ date >>> Thu Aug 16 16:49:35 2007 >>> ~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 2 Aug 16 16:42

Re: Installer tasks

2007-08-17 Thread phil long
George alink.co.za> writes: > > Hi All, > > Assuming I wish to copy the c:\cygwin\ directory from one computer to > another, are there any further utilities/updates which I need to do to > ensure it works correctly? > > I have create a script which redoes the mount points (mount -m). > > Is

RE: Installer tasks

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 August 2007 13:57, phil long wrote: > George alink.co.za> writes: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> Assuming I wish to copy the c:\cygwin\ directory from one computer to >> another, are there any further utilities/updates which I need to do to >> ensure it works correctly? >> >> I have create a sc

Re: Installer tasks

2007-08-17 Thread George
Dave Korn wrote: This is why most people recommend just copying across the local packages dir, and running setup.exe on the new machine telling it to "install from local package dir". There's a fairly open-ended and underspecified list of things you'd have to fix up manually if you try to cop

Re: rsync problems from Vista installed cygwin, ok on XP

2007-08-17 Thread DaveB
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > For testing I copied over the whole /usr directory from my Vista box to > a Linux machine. I'm rather puzzled how setting permissions on the > *remote* machine should be affected by the OS of the source machine. > > I guess we need much more information. Are the

Permission denied problem

2007-08-17 Thread Marko Loparic
Hi, I have a permission denied problem with a specific network directory $ ls /cygdrive/x/PPP/QQQ ls: cannot open directory /cygdrive/x/PPP/QQQ: Permission denied I described this problem some time ago in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00023.html Larry Hall suggested me to try nontsec,

will cygwin work in the windows vista

2007-08-17 Thread wei
I check the FAQ and it mentioned that cygwin will work in most of the windows system except CE. Will it also work in the latest windows Vista? Thanks --Wei -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Permission denied problem

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 August 2007 17:26, Marko Loparic wrote: > $ getfacl.exe /cygdrive/x/PPP/QQQ > # file: /cygdrive/x/PPP/QQQ > # owner: ffa195 > # group: mkgroup-l-d > user::rwx > group::r-x > other:r-x > mask:rwx > > for both the directories with the permission problem and for other > directories without the

Re: rsync problems from Vista installed cygwin, ok on XP

2007-08-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, DaveB wrote: > Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > > > For testing I copied over the whole /usr directory from my Vista box > > to a Linux machine. I'm rather puzzled how setting permissions on the > > *remote* machine should be affected by the OS of the source machine. > > > > I g

Re: will cygwin work in the windows vista

2007-08-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
wei wrote: I check the FAQ and it mentioned that cygwin will work in most of the windows system except CE. Will it also work in the latest windows Vista? Yes. Where did you see the word "most"? The main Cygwin site page says this: The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commerciall

failed to install the latest version of cygwin X11 section

2007-08-17 Thread wei
Hi all My cygwin has been working well until I made an update today. It crashed during the updated. Has anyone else had the same problem? My system is Windows XP home edition Thanks --Wei -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cy

Cygwin won't install on Windows 2008.

2007-08-17 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
It deterministically gets stuck while executing (any of the) scripts in the "installation" phase. I haven't found any info on this on Google. It doesn't help to run it in elevated or backward compatibility mode. Krzys -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

Re: Cygwin won't install on Windows 2008.

2007-08-17 Thread wei
Similar problem in Windows XP. It happens at least during the installation of X11. Krzysztof Ostrowski wrote: It deterministically gets stuck while executing (any of the) scripts in the "installation" phase. I haven't found any info on this on Google. It doesn't help to run it in elevated or b

Re: permissions/owners seen on cygwin-client vs. server

2007-08-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Don't know if it is helpful, but from another linux box, mounted with cifs, I see pretty similar: drwsrwsrwt 2 linusers0 Nov 24 2006 NT_Perflogs/ drwxr-s--- 2 root private 0 Jul 26 2006 archive/ drwsr-s--- 4 backup backup 0 May 14 13:53 backup/ drwxr-xr-x 4 lindevel