On Nov 19 20:51, Richard Ivarson wrote: > Christopher Faylor schrieb: > >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:35:04AM -0700, Rob Bosch wrote: >>>> Rob, many thanks for your reply. >>>> So it's not just me having massive problems with the NT permissions >>>> which >>> are >>>> being messed up by Cygwin tools like rsync. Actually most Cygwin users >>> should >>>> see these problems, I guess, because Windows 2000 and XP use NTFS. >>>> I can't use rsync anymore, because the permissions of the destination >>>> are >>> all wrong after rsync resets them... Oh what a pity! >>> >>> Rsync will work fine with 1.5.25. Just set the global NTSEC (see >>> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html). You have to set this >>> variable in your system environment so that any process spawned gets it, >>> especially if you are running rsync as a service. If you are scripting >>> it, >>> add it in your cmd file. >> ntsec is the *default* and has been for some time. There is no reason to >> set >> it. > > Yes, Rob meant for us RSYNC users: set CYGWIN=NONTSEC > ... because NTSEC (the default) causes much trouble with the NT permissions > on RSYNC'ed files. A web search shows that _many_ people run into these > problems. So maybe for RSYNC the default NTSEC isn't a good idea. I'm on > edge how Cygwin 1.7 solves or rather handles this problem.
For rsync ntsec is a good idea, imho. Your scenario isn't my scenario. I *want* permissions which reflect POSIX permissions closely. I don't care for Windows default permissions. Lately we have lots of people claiming that they use Cygwin tools in a native Windows environment and how being POSIXy is in the way of what they are doing. Keep in mind that the whole idea of Cygwin is to provide a POSIXy environment and the default should be as close to POSIX as possible. Using Cygwin in a non-POSIXy situation is the border case, not the norm. So adapt your settings, but don't expect that it's the default. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
