Can't run NumTut on cygwin-hosted python

When I try to run the NumTut demo in Numeric in my cygwin hosted python, I get a tclerror: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]": no such file or directory. But the file does indeed exist. At first glance it seems like a problem with cygwin mapping WinNT paths to POSIX paths, but I have played around with the env

new files have bogus owner

When I create a new file, it gives the file a bogus value for the owner: ~/tmp $ whoami perry ~/tmp $ echo asdf > asdf ~/tmp $ ls -l total 1 -rw-rw-rw-1 1119 None5 Sep 19 17:36 asdf ~/tmp $ grep 1119 /etc/passwd ~/tmp $ Shouldn't the file owner be perry? What the hell is 111

can't chmod files that I own

I have read the documentation on 'ntsec', but I still don't understand why I can't chmod files that I own. I noticed this when using cvs. For example: $cvs update cvs server: Updating . U blah.cpp cvs update: cannot change mode of ./blah.cpp: Invalid argument $ ls -l total 54 drwxrwxrwx2 Ad

RE: can't chmod files that I own

you done the "mkpasswd -u perry -d COMPANY_DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd"? That's what fixed it for me. See this for another workaround: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01167.html -Original Message- From: Jeff Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25,

kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/spool/texmf/ls-R

I uninstalled and then reinstalled the latest cygwin, and now when I load the cygwin shell, I get: warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/spool/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. [perry@WSGP42200-2 jsp] 501:$ Of course, there is no man page for kpathsea

ssh can't create .ssh directory

I fixed my /etc/passwd file with mkpasswd -u uname -d domain, but it seemed to have broken my ssh. When I try to ssh, it says, 'could not create directory '/home/uname/.ssh'. If mv .ssh to .ssh.save and then try to run ssh-keygen again, it complains that it can't create the .ssh directory. Does

How does cygwin map / to c:/cygwin?

I am very confused about how cygwin maps its root to the c:/cygwin directory. I'm also not sure what /cygdrive is. When I type gvim /etc/passwd from bash, gvim comes up with an empty file called passwd in c:/etc (which doesn't exist). If I try to write this file, gvim fails, which, of course, i

gconftool hangs during install on win xp 64

When I try to install cygwin 1.5.20-1 on windows xp x64 2003, my system hangs. It hangs because gconftool indefinitely forks until virtual memory is used up. I've seen posts similar this problem (re: Oliver Walsh, fork bombs, gconftool.exe, clear.exe). Clear.exe used to exhibit this same behavi