Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/24/08:43:42
I appreciate the help.
It's not clear to me why either mkpasswd or mkgroup in my home directory
would cause the effects I and others have been seeing with the latest
version of cygwin.
At any rate, here's the results of my ls -al on my home directory. No
mkpasswd or mkgroup.
-Val
$ ls -al
total 11492
drwxrwxr-x+ 15 Administ Administ 0 Feb 23 14:33 ./
drwxrwxr-x+ 3 Administ Administ 0 Jan 28 15:40 ../
-rw-rw---- 1 Administ Administ 4518 Feb 21 16:57 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 596 Feb 20 15:54 .bash_profile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 587 Feb 23 14:33 .bashrc
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Val Schm None 0 Nov 22 13:37 .emacs.d/
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 0 Feb 20 14:39 .gmtcommands
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 356 Feb 19 16:27 .inputrc
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Jan 30 10:13 .ncftp/
-rw------- 1 Val Schm None 6061 Feb 23 17:45 .octave_hist
-rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 216 Nov 22 13:30 .profile
drwxrwx---+ 2 Administ Administ 0 Jan 14 11:10 .ssh/
-rwxrw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 43 Dec 13 11:59 .tunnel*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 Val Schm None 664 Jan 20 10:13 .xinitrc
drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Val Schm None 0 Jan 20 17:15 hiro/
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Nov 21 17:42 kermit/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Val Schm None 191 Dec 13 14:44 mydocs ->
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Val Schmidt/My Documents//
drwxrwxrwx+ 6 Val Schm None 0 Feb 23 15:26 octave/
-rwxrwx---+ 2 Administ SYSTEM 4194372 Feb 17 13:26 pfirewall.log*
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Dec 19 15:41 plotscripts/
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Val Schm None 0 Jan 20 16:26 projects/
drwxrwxr-x+ 6 Administ Administ 0 Jan 28 15:13 rsync-scripts/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Administ 504 Oct 15 10:55 ssh.exe.stackdump*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 2202 Dec 12 13:31 sshd-cygwin
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 1982 Dec 12 13:18 sshd-cygwin~
drwxrwsr-x+ 4 Val Schm None 0 Feb 17 11:24 testing/
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 23 18:03 tmp/
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 3 17:09 tunnel_scripts/
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 3 16:34 unison-scripts/
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 102 Feb 5 13:48 unison.cmd
-rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 7546969 Feb 17 15:20 waas.d226
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Val Schmidt
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964
m: 614 286 3726
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk]
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: cygwin; Val Schmidt
> Subject: Re: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
>
> > I upgraded to the 1.3.20-1 version dll today and saw very similar and
> > strange behavior. Some things wouldn't execute due to permissions
> errors,
> > and other would execute from commandline but not from a script. What
> causes
> > this, I don't know.
> >
> > I ran setup.exe again, found the "base" cygwin install, cycled through
> the
> > keep/uninstall/revert until 1.9-19 version came up, and installed the
> older
> > version. Everything seems to be working fine now.
> >
> > I wish I could help with what's broke, but I don't have a clue.
> >
> > There's a recent remark in the list that's there's no way to uninstall -
> the
> > procedure above seems to work just fine.
>
> What is the output of `ls -al /path/to/your/homedir' . I'm thinking that
> it
> will contain eother mkpasswd or mkgroup.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Elfyn McBratney
> elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
> www.exposure.org.uk
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