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Date:  Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:57:10 -0500
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Chuck wrote:
> Folks I could really use some help here. I still cannot get the ls
> command to work reliably. It worked for years and about two weeks ago
> started sputtering.  I have completely unstalled all cygwin packages,
> deleted the directories, and reinstalled from scratch. Even just
> installing the bare mimimum packages and running a bash shell without X
> or even a .profile, ls still fails to output anything 50% of the time.
> 
> One other observation I've made is there's a similar program named
> "dir.exe" in the /usr/bin directory. It seems to do pretty much the same
> thing as ls. In fact the file sizes and timestamps are even the same. It
> works every time. I could just alias ls=/usr/bin/dir but that seems more
> like a work-around rather than fixing the real problem. Can anyone help
> with this? TIA
> 
> 

For anyone interested, the problem turned out not to be caused by either
anti-virus or anyti-spyware software, but rather it was LanDesk. When I
stopped the "LANDesk Software Monitoring" service, the problem went
away. When I restarted it, it returned. Thanks to all who helped in
pointing me in the right direction. It just took some time to figure out
which program it was.


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