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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:47:07 -0800 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1106670496.10021.18.camel@linuxpc.lune> <1106676434.10021.29.camel@linuxpc.lune> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: farscape.lynx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) In-Reply-To: <1106676434.10021.29.camel@linuxpc.lune> X-IsSubscribed: yes Neven Luetic wrote: > In the meantime I moved the directory away and I am able to install a > new cygwin and remove it by deleting the directory. However I can not > get rid of the old directory. Everything inside, that's a real file, > can be deleted manually by setting the appropriate privileges - what > remains are just the stale symbolic links and some symbolic links to > Windows files like /etc/hosts to C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\networks. I'm curious. What happens if you open a Windows Explorer and attempt to delete the top level directory for this renegade Cygwin install? -- ...Every morning is the dawn of a new error... -- 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/