Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating the command several times would succeed, though. Downgradin

how to connect cygwin using named pipes or virtual serial port from vmware

2011-07-04 Thread abhishek srivastava
hi i want to make cygwin connection with VMware using named pipes or virtual serial  port. so,i need to know the process to do so. kindly help with it. TCP/IP doesnt really helps. thank you Abhishek Greetings, abhishek srivastava! > i had installed cygwin on windows 7 on which i am plann

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > As an aside: > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating > the command several times

Re: Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-04 Thread Kurt Franke
Andrew Hancock gmail.com> writes: ... something deleted > > Would it suffice to use chown to force ownership back to the strings > "LOCAL SERVICE" and "NETWORK SERVICE"? Or is something deeper > required to ensure complete and proper ownership transferral? > Andrew just add the following entr

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in us

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>As an aside: > >>I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > >>hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > >>time)

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 13:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > I have also seen the rm -rf problem occasionally on my w7-64 > > machine, and I don't think anything from BLODA is installed. > > Also with 1.7.8? Given the minor number of FS-related changes, it's > so very unlik

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:46 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > As an aside: > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > > time) because files were presumab

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:33 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > >>As an aside: > > >> I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > >> hierarch

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less r

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > random source dir to blow away: > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > >$ > > This seems to happen mo

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/07/2011 8:21 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 08:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > However, I was wrong about not seeing the problem since. Choosing a > > random source dir to blow away: > > >$ rm -rf Python-2.6.6 > > >rm: cannot remove `Python-2.6.6/Lib/lib2to3/tests': Directory not empty > > >$

Re: how to connect cygwin using named pipes or virtual serial port from vmware

2011-07-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:32:03PM +0530, abhishek srivastava wrote: >i want to make cygwin connection with VMware using named pipes or >virtual serial? port. > >so,i need to know the process to do so. > >kindly help with it. TCP/IP doesnt really helps. Sorry but, so far, your messages are not c

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Geisert
> Any idea of how to debug this? We need some instantaneous version of > lsof or something... Not what you asked for, but useful for debugging stuff like this: FileMon and ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals.com (now a MS site). Just in case you haven't run across them before... ..mark -- Proble

Re: Vim segv'ing

2011-07-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:43 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > P.S.: Yaakov, is there any chance to get a 4.5.3 x86_64 cross compiler > package? Yum always tries to replace my x86_64 4.5.1 package with the > 4.5.3 package for i686, but that doesn't work due to missing > dependencies... I have updat

cygwin permissions problem on a network drive

2011-07-04 Thread Bill Metzenthen
I have problems with permissions on a network drive.  The drive is maintained by others and I have no control over the Windows permissions of the drive. I have a directory on the drive and I can use Windows Explorer to create and write files and subdirectories to it.  I can also use the Windows 'm

Re: Undo taking of ownership of LocalService & NetworkService file trees

2011-07-04 Thread Andy
Kurt Franke web.de> writes: > just add the following entries to your /etc/passwd file: > > LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: > NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20:: > > this will allow you > chown LocalService ... > or the same with NetworkSe