X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4ABA6970.1020809@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:24:54 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin portable bash From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morten_Kj=E6rulff?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Hi, If you have a cygwin application running on machine A and update the installation on machine B, you might run into problems when dropbox tries to copy the files to machine A. I did almost the same with Windows Live Mesh. Now I am only synchronizing my home directory. Cheers, Morten On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: > Andy Holt writes: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I installed cygwin on my laptop (domain andy-laptop), and it works >> great from here. I installed in a special folder ("My Dropbox") which >> uses the free dropbox service online to synchronize the folder accross >> multiple machines (my other machine is andy-desktop). On the desktop >> machine (also username Andy), I can run cmd and CD to the cygwin >> directory, I can go into the /bin directory and run most of the >> programs just fine for some simple stuff, but it won't load bash >> correctly. >> >> When I installed cygwin on the laptop, I chose to install only for the >> single user (not the whole machine) and tried to make it avoid any >> registry tampering. >> >> So basically I think I need to figure out how to run bash as the andy >> from andy-laptop on andy-desktop... Or something? I can't figure this >> out and most of the stuff I've read online isn't helping and has to do >> with bash scripting instead of running bash as a user on a different >> domain or something. I'm just kind of confused where to go. >> >> I appreciate any help you can offer, thanks a bunch, >> -Andy > > Have you checked the simple things first? =A0Did all the cygwin files get > copied over? =A0Check file sizes on the directories, and see if you really > have everything. > > You might try installing cygwin onto your laptop and desktop first, then > synchronizing them, or maybe only synchronizing your home directory, and > manually keeping the rest updated. > > My 2 cents... > > I have cygwin running on, oh, about 6 machines, and all I really keep > synchronized is my home directory. =A0That way I can run emacs gnus > anywhere, or check emacs erc, or whatever, and be happy. > > Dave > > > -- > Problem reports: =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: =A0 =A0 =A0http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple