Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVYH7p0F8WsADlaAYqjrDrqmYO5mOagidyDor7zVonhBcaB22/RZtuhY Message-ID: <3EBBF0A8.2080901@rfk.com> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 14:17:12 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Harig, Mark A." CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Sanjay Goel Subject: Re: cron in cygwin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark, What problem are you referring to? The question of what difference it makes if you install Cygwin as "Just Me" vs "All Users"? That's just where the mount goes in the registry as Igor mentioned. If you're questioning why Sanjay is having problems with his cron installation, that is not clear and I can't help here beyond what has already been offered. BTW, there is no magic to the drive that Cygwin is installed on. D: is as good as C: is as good as E: is as good as... Larry Harig, Mark A. wrote: > Yes, "drastic" was the word I thought of > when writing the suggestion. I don't know > what is causing the problem so I suggested > something drastic that might get around the > problem. If anyone knows specifically what > might be causing the problem and its solution, > then that, of course, would be preferable to > reinstalling the software. > > Thanks for your "system mount" reset command. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] >>Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:18 PM >>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >>Subject: RE: cron in cygwin >> >> >>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >> >>>Mark, >>> >>>The solution you propose is quite drastic and unnecessary. >> >>The problem >> >>>you mention has to do with the Cygwin mounts being user, rather than >>>system, mounts. First of all, there is a simple way to reset those >>>without re-running setup.exe and/or reinstalling Cygwin, by using >>>something like >>> >>>eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;'`" >>> >>>(the above is for the archives). >> >>Oops, that's not much good for the archives, is it? *blush* >>Here's the correct one: >> >>eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;/'`" >> >>Sorry about that. >> Igor > > > -- > 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/ > > -- Larry -- 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/