Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-01 Thread aputerguy
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 12/29/2010 11:46 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >> When I do an 'ls -al' (or a getfacl) on some files, I get: >> owner/group = ???/???, implying that the numeric uid/gid are >> not found in the passwd/group file. >> >> This occurs even though I ran: >>

Re: File output Question

2011-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:25:17PM -0700, ERIC HO wrote: >Using the cat or file command on a file, the output is readable. But >if I use vim or less command, the output is either unreadable or >nothing displayed. Not sure why the file output is readable from some >commands and not others. Any wa

File output Question

2011-01-01 Thread ERIC HO
Using the cat or file command on a file, the output is readable. But if I use vim or less command, the output is either unreadable or nothing displayed. Not sure why the file output is readable from some commands and not others. Any way I can use vim/less command to display this file readable? T

X server segfault problem

2011-01-01 Thread chm
I'm having a problem with cygwin 1.7.7 and X version 1.9.3.0 where an OpenGL application from perl using the Mesa3D binding dies in the test with a segfault: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting. Please open /var

Re: Windows 7 and file ownership

2011-01-01 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Steve Thompson wrote: On Win7, a "DIR /Q" on a mapped share similarly shows an owner of "BUILTIN\Administrators", but a "stat" or a "ls -ln" in a cygwin bash shell always shows a uid of 544 and a gid of 545, _no matter who_ the logged-in user or the actual file ownership.

FYI-- Symantec Security Warnings with setup.exe

2011-01-01 Thread Carl Lund
Hi-- On running Cygwin setup today, Norton Security complained about two files tee.ext and date.exe Norton used its SONAR (see below) to detect what it thought was a high security risk. They claimed programs were behaving suspicious on my computer. One thing that flagged these files was that

Windows 7 and file ownership

2011-01-01 Thread Steve Thompson
Please forgive the cross-post; I'm not sure where this issue lies. Samba 3.5.1, CentOS 5.5 x86_64 PDC with Win2K, WinXP, Win2003 and Win7 32-bit domain members, tdbsam backend. Cygwin 1.7.7. All basic functionality seems to be fine, except... On Win2K, WinXP and Win2003, a "DIR /Q" on a mappe

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2011-01-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/01/2011 09:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 December 2010 18:22, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I do not imply the devs are ignorant - just busy perhaps. Good. If you'd also contemplated the possibility that the current state was deliberately decided on as the least bad solution, While I did eventu

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2011-01-01 Thread Andy Koppe
On 31 December 2010 18:22, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I do not imply the devs are ignorant - just busy perhaps. Good. If you'd also contemplated the possibility that the current state was deliberately decided on as the least bad solution, you might have written your complaint in more temperate langua