SYSTEMROOT, cygpath, and /proc funniness

2011-04-22 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
In .bash_profile I use cygpath to convert several environment variables that contain Windows paths to instead contain Unix paths. One in particular, SYSTEMROOT, has caused several problems, one of which is causing ClearCase's cleartool to be non-functional. Another is strictly within Cygwin its

admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

2011-04-22 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've installed cygwin V1.7.5 within Windows7 SP1. Curiously a file seems to have two different owners. Depends on the account which list the file. If I run a cmd as a normal user and list file: C:\>ls -lh / drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators 16K 2011-04-22 10:46 bin C:\>ls -lhn /

Re: admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

2011-04-22 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed cygwin V1.7.5 within Windows7 SP1. > Curiously a file seems to have two different owners. Depends on the > account which list the file. > > > If I run a cmd as a normal user and list file: > C:\>ls -lh / > drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrato

Re: admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

2011-04-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/22/2011 12:27 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: As normal user "grep 1033 /etc/passwd" don't deliver a result. So I removed /etc/passwd. After this the misterious was removed too. It seems there was two files /etc/passwd on the same place. An old one (without the user 1033) an

Re: admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

2011-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/22/2011 12:27 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I've installed cygwin V1.7.5 within Windows7 SP1. Curiously a file seems to have two different owners. Depends on the account which list the file. If I run a cmd as a normal user and list file: C:\>ls -lh / drwxrwx---+ 1

RE: admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

2011-04-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Eliot Moss sent the following at Friday, April 22, 2011 1:03 PM >On 4/22/2011 12:27 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Matthias Meyer wrote: >> As normal user "grep 1033 /etc/passwd" don't deliver a result. So I >> removed /etc/passwd. >> After this the mysterious was removed too. It seems there was two

Re: cygwin 1.7.8-1 setup produces INVALID PACKAGE entries in setup.log.full

2011-04-22 Thread Ken
Mark Geisert wrote: Just for the record, on my Win7 host I am running ESET's NOD32 64-bit antivirus and, as a test, I had disabled that too, also to no avail. As the FAQ entry for BLODA points out, disabling it may not be enough. The acid test is whether removing the BLODA from your syste

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: boxes 1.0.1a-2 -- Textmode box and comment drawing filter

2011-04-22 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://boxes.thomasjensen.com License : GPL Extremely configurable filter for adding and removing ASCII art (comments, for example) around chunks of text. Most modern text editors support filtering text through external filters. Boxes is such a f

bash 4.1.10: SHELLOPTS questions -- different behavior between sh and bash

2011-04-22 Thread Len Giambrone
Greetings. I'm running the latest (as of a few days ago) Cygwin and bash. Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus bash 4.1.10-4 OK cygwin 1.7.9-1OK If I set -o igncr, and then export SHELLOPTS as stated in /usr/share/doc/