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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:29:44 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: Jean-Marc Eurin <jmeurin AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: export vs ntsec (was chmod/chown/gdb/cygrunsrc does not work)
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Hehe :)

Jean-Marc Eurin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think I actually found the root cause of my various
> problems: setting the 'export' flag in the CYGWIN
> variable on W2K (i.e. with ntsec) seems a very bad
> idea.
> 
> I removed it (now CYGWIN=ntsec), rebooted, and now:
> - chown & chmod work.
> - gdb does not crash (see message on 10/26/01)
> - I can run services with cygrunsrv. The symptom here
> was that when starting the service (--start), Windows
> would complain that it could not find cygwin1.dll in
> the PATH.
> 
> Hopefully this will solve some of the issues seen in
> this list :-)

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