Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/12/26/12:22:28
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> Well, from your cygcheck:
>
> > Path: C:\Program Files\Far
> > C:\WINDOWS\system32
> > C:\WINDOWS
> > C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
> > C:\WUsr\atit\ATI Control Panel
> > C:\usr\shared\Compuware\NMShared
> > C:\usr\shared\Compuware\
> > C:\WUsr\Subversion\bin
> > C:\SFU\common\
> > c:\bin
> > c:\usr\gnuplot\bin
> ...
> > Found: c:\bin\awk.exe
> > Found: \bin\awk.exe
> > Warning: c:\bin\awk.exe hides \bin\awk.exe
> ...
> > Found: C:\bcb6\Bin\grep.exe
>
> You have competing programs, such as those from SFU, on your path, and
> must have run cygcheck with cygwin off your path (I would welcome a patch
> to cygcheck that scanned the cygwin mount point for /bin whether or not
> that was currently on %PATH% at the time cygcheck was run). That may or
> may not come back to haunt you; I would recommend sticking with just one
> version of Unix-y tools.
I don't have SFU installed, it's just a remnants in the PATH so I just
remove it. As for awk etc. in c:\bin, it's there for a long time and
cygwin has been coexisting with it fine.
> Beyond that, I don't see any obvious problems, and you aren't a victim of
> Vista's weird problems, so I have to suspect that you might have a buggy
> driver that is interfering with cygwin's desired usage patterns. Recent
> culprits have included McAfee virus, Agnitum Outpost, Logitech webcam, ...
>
I have Outpost 4 installed and updated it recently. It does cause some
problems like BSoDs and multithreading problems, but the last version
seemed to be more stable. Anyway I'll try to turn it off or uninstall
and see how cygwin works without it. I have a logitech mouse as well
but I can hardly do without it. :(
Outpost has evolved from rather lightweight and efficient firewall
into a monstrous resource consumer with lots of unnecessary whistles
and bells. Can you recommend a minimalistic, reasonably good and well
behaving firewall? I need cygwin badly as I use lots of programs that
depend on it in my research and VMWare or additional Linux box is not
a good solution for me.
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