Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030826205355.00819d20@incoming.verizon.net> X-Sender: vze1u1tg@incoming.verizon.net Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:53:55 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: RE: Failing to delete files that is hold by makegroup In-Reply-To: References: <5AC9A01A8B1175418B4DF7F45DD94D5F1E5364@srvexch1.nanoteq.co.za> <5AC9A01A8B1175418B4DF7F45DD94D5F1E5364@srvexch1.nanoteq.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:59 AM 8/26/2003 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Johan, > >Well, for one, why not use "rm -rf" instead? I'm not at all sure the -d >flag is even implemented on Cygwin. > >Also, the value "mkgroup_l_d" for your group means that your /etc/group >doesn't contain the group of the file owner. Please make sure it's up to >date (see ). Hmm, having mkgroup_l_d will never cause any problem of this type. Let me set the record straight. mkgroup_l_d *IS* the group name in the /etc/group file, although it is not the Windows group name (which was unknown at postinstall time). The user has 100% functionality and can e.g. ssh or telnet to the local machine and use cron. The main reason to run mk{passwd,group} -ld is aesthetic: OTHER domain users and groups are unknown and ls -l might display ??????? In contrast when the group name is mkpasswd or mkgroup, the relevant file is indeed incomplete. Still, there should NOT be any problem running programs from a shell but it will be impossible to use services that setuid, such as sshd, telnetd, crond, etc... Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/