I believe you've put your finger on the problem exactly. Before trashing my
own old cygwin setup, I had just reinstalled w2k myself, ending up with the
same file ownership problems you encountered. So it seems that setup reacts
badly when it cannot overwrite a file.
--dave
- Original Messag
Um, no this IS spam! Since no user can unsubscribe, your message at the
bottom IS A LIE and I'm fairly certain that the other folks on this list
will not tolerate this BS.
Any moderators around? Can you please unsubscribe us?
And, BTW, I suggest all list users avoid this product and instead use i
I'm on a fresh re-install of Win2k which still has IE 5 on it... I've
applied no patches at all... Windows update scares me more than the cygwin
one does ;)
Actually, the problem was solved for me by cleaning out and trashing my
entire cygwin folder + package cache and reinstalling everything from
I did not experience this during my initial install, but it just happened
tonight while trying to install libxml2. It happens with the original
installer I had (unsure of version) and, as Larry suggested, it happens even
with the very latest dev snapshot 2.358.
http://rogue.dnsalias.com:1984/cygwi
Accidentally replied to "Re: Problem Running Apache through Cygwin" by
mistake. The subject should have read "W2K files locked after reinstall".
Just replying for convience and ended up posting to wrong thread, sorry :(
--dave
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From: &qu
Hello all.
This week I have had to reinstall Windows 2000 (due to a problem unrelated
to Cygwin) and was suprised to find files in my Windows home directory (SSH
stuff) and in my cygwin home still owned by the previous user with the same
name. I cannot delete or modify these files, even logged in
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