X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BA3D015.3070302@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:27:17 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Aage_Frydenb=F8-Bruvoll?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup] References: <4BA35384.1040100@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> <20100319112252.GL6505@calimero.vinschen.de> <4BA3658D.4060705@gmail.com> <4BA36211.30109@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> <20100319114731.GO6505@calimero.vinschen.de> <4BA37B3A.8070901@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> <20100319173948.GB17541@calimero.vinschen.de> <4BA3BCB0.3030009@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> <4BA3C4FA.7090703@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA3C4FA.7090703@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 19/03/2010 18:39, Dave Korn wrote: > I would strongly suggest nobody ever follow this reckless approach to > eliminating BLODAs. > > Always use the service control manager and/or the add/remove programs > control panel, according to whether you're trying to temporarily disable or > completely uninstall a suspect package. > > Don't go manually killing processes or hand-editing the registry, or you > will be left holding the pieces when it all breaks. > Thanks for the warning, but I feel pretty much on my own on whether Windows works at all anyway, so I'm happy with that risk. ;-) Best regards Jan -- 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