Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/08/22:54:29
DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> I did some unfortunate experimenting with compiling different versions
> of Sleuthkit and Autopsy (http://www.sleuthkit.org) before they
> officially started supporting cygwin.
>
> Autopsy wipes out your PATH when it runs to make sure you are using
> the correct version of the utilities.
>
> This also means, it could not see any of the Cygwin dlls that the
> tools were compiled with (they've implemented intelligent work-arounds
> since then).
>
> I tried hard linking the various dlls it needed in its designated bin
> directory.
>
> The experiment isn't important (since they now support Cygwin out of
> the box), what is important is that I cannot delete my hard links.
>
> Actually, I can get it to go the recycle bin, but it won't leave the
> recycle bin.
>
> I can 'restore' them but I cannot empty it.
>
> Looking through my bash history file, I see I did:
> chmod a+rwx cygz.dll
> unlink cygz.dll
>
> This let me delete the file as far as getting it to the recycle bin,
> but that is as far as I can go.
>
> The specific error from Windows is:
> Error Deleting File or Folder
> Cannot delete cygz: Access is denied.
> Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is
> not currently in use.
>
> Since the file is in my recycle bin, this message makes no sense.
>
> Is there some way I can make the original cygz.dll forget all about a
> couple of its hard links because ls still shows it has 3 total instead
> of 1 like every other single dll.
From your cygcheck.out:
Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path
Get rid of the one in 'c:\Tools\Foundstone\'. This is most
likely your problem.
Get rid of "ntea" in your CYGWIN environment variable. You don't
need it and it could get in your way.
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