X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C881357.4070100@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:51:03 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive References: <4C881018 DOT 4060809 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 9/8/2010 6:45 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:37 PM -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <> wrote: >> I think you need to look at why the user that created the files in the >> first place isn't known to Cygwin. If you can solve that problem, you >> may find the rest falls into place. > > No clue, I assume it is some bug in cygwin, since this happens to any file > created on this drive via Cygwin. > > build AT zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS > $ whoami > build > > build AT zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS > $ ls -l blah > ls: cannot access blah: No such file or directory > > build AT zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS > $ touch blah > l > build AT zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS > $ ls -l blah > -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-09-08 15:45 blah OK, take a look at . You'll want to use 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup' to get the passwd and group files fixed up. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple