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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:46:59 -0700
From: Todd Curry <toddcurry AT mailblocks DOT com>
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Subject: Whack-a-Mole: Purging Cygnus from Registry
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I'm using an rsyncd package that uses its own version of cygwin, and 
does not play nice when installed on a machine with Cygwin.  It is part 
of BackupPC, which is turning out to be an incredible piece of backup 
software.

So, I've got one Windows XP machine that is seemingly possessed -- I 
have removed the cygwin dir, have triple-checked running processes and 
services and don't see anything that I *think* is Cygwin related.

But here is the kicker:  no matter how (or how many) times I purge the 
"Cygnus Solutions" entries from the XP registry, they come right back 
-- something is re-creating them.  I delete the keys, start it back up, 
and there is Cygnus again.  It is truly bizarre!

What should I check to make sure there are no processes or services 
running?  Somebody give me the "paranoid" / overkill options here.

Second, if that should fail, does anyone know what specifically creates 
the registry entries?  Can we work backwards from there to find the 
culprit?

Thanks much,

Todd

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