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-SBRS: None Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:05:08 +0200 Message-ID: <25F7D2213F14794A8767B88203EA2BC9240C75@mucse201.eu.infineon.com> From: To: Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j6475LMR028028 > [OT: Your mailer is not providing a name alongside your email > address, so > I had to manually munge the address. Thank you for pointing this out! I was not aware of it, but was able to reproduce it. It really puzzles me. I'm forced to use here Microsoft Outlook via Exchange, and I had thought that the standard installation at our site would automatically the personal name. Obviously it doesn't. In case you (or anyone else reading this) knows how I can teach Outlook to handle this properly, please let me know by private message (not on the list). > Mozilla Thunderbird > automatically > avoids quoting email addresses in a reply only if the sender > has listed a > name - does anyone on the list know of a plugin to make > Thunderbird behave > more reasonably?] > > > No - would it be important to upgrade, in order to solve my > problem? Of > > course I will do if this is the only way, but I don't like > upgrading if > > it is not strictly necessary. You know: "Never touch a > running system". > > Cygwin 1.3.22? Wow, that's old, and unsupported! And in two places, > C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll and c:\Program > Files\OpenSSH\bin\cygwin1.dll? I believe the latter stems from the fact that we have a standard (company wide) installation procedure for installing OpenSSH, so it installs its copy of cygwin1.dll in its preferred place. Actually, I was surprised to have "only" two copies of that DLL, because we are using Ant too, and this, AFIK, uses internally also the cygwin mechanism to run on Windoze. > That's just asking for trouble! You can probably just delete > the Program > Files\OpenSSH version, then update your installation using setup.exe > (there have been so many bugs fixed between 1.3.22 and 1.5.17 that it > isn't even funny), before any other help from this list will > be useful. Then I'll have to bite the bullet. Thank you for helping. > And who knows, doing the update may even resolve your issue > with chmod, so > use the unexpected behavior of chmod as your justification that your > system is no longer a running system. Thank you, I'll do so. Regards, Ronald -- 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/