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 Message-ID: <006b01c33243$94eea010$7b00a8c0@davebox> From: "Dave Fletcher" To: "Dave Fletcher" , Subject: W2K files locked after reinstall [PREVIOUS POST BAD TOPIC - SORRY] Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:07:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Accidentally replied to "Re: Problem Running Apache through Cygwin" by mistake. The subject should have read "W2K files locked after reinstall". Just replying for convience and ended up posting to wrong thread, sorry :( --dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Fletcher" To: Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:04 AM Subject: Re: Problem Running Apache through Cygwin > Hello all. > > This week I have had to reinstall Windows 2000 (due to a problem unrelated > to Cygwin) and was suprised to find files in my Windows home directory (SSH > stuff) and in my cygwin home still owned by the previous user with the same > name. I cannot delete or modify these files, even logged in as > Administrator. Tried "chown -R" as Administrator, and that still did not > seem to help. Of course, I also checked the regular Windows GUI but even as > Administrator the controls for changing user settings are disabled. I > checked the FAQ and docs, but an easy answer does not seem to present > itself. > > Any ideas? Thanks, > > --dave > -- 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/