Uuencoded cygcheck - was - Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Marc Girod wrote: I now add the updated and uuencoded cygcheck.out: begin 700 cygcheck.uue I may have missed something in the recent conversation here or maybe it's just my email client (Thunderbird) which doesn't automatically handle this decoding but this is the first time the notion of

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > I always set my basic CYGWIN settings in the windows system properties > global environment. Thanks. I did it now. > If the remote drive supports proper NTFS ACLs, any file cygwin creates on it > /while/ CYGWIN=smbntsec is in effect will have proper NTFS acce

RE: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 February 2008 10:39, Marc Girod wrote: > But for now, I assume that my problem being 'solved', this is not > necessary anymore? I don't think we need it any more, no. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

RE: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 February 2008 10:36, Marc Girod wrote: >> So, try your original test again, but with >> >> ~> export CYGWIN=ntsec smbntsec >> >> at the start. > > Thanks. This helpped. > I didn't even have to give the chmod again. > With the environment variable, the rights showed up correctly. > [I no

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Will Parsons nodomain.invalid> writes: > What I've done is to uuencode it (I think uuencode is part of sharutils): > > $ uuencode cygcheck.out cygcheck.out > cygcheck.uue > > and inserted the uuencoded text into the message. Nobody's complained, so > I think it must work. Thanks. I believe th

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > Highly significant ... No doubt. > -> the words "CYGWIN environment variable" are a link to >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html This I had found... But not clearly understood whether I was supposed to set it myself, or whether Cygwin woul

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-24 Thread Will Parsons
Marc Girod wrote: > Thanks Dave, > > Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > >> paying close attention to the bit about how to generate, attach and send your >> cygcheck output with your question to the list > > Argh! How do I attach something via gmane? > How can I reply to your mail otherwise? > > $ cyg

RE: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 February 2008 14:00, Marc Girod wrote: > Thanks Dave, > > Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > >> This H drive of which you speak, it is a network drive perhaps? > > Indeed. Highly significant ... >> But I agree that documentation you mentioned could be clarified a bit, it >> doesn't

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Hoffman
Marc Girod wrote: Argh! How do I attach something via gmane? Use a newsreader that supports attachments? Try Thunderbird. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-24 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks Dave, Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > This H drive of which you speak, it is a network drive perhaps? Indeed. > paying close attention to the bit about how to generate, attach and send your > cygcheck output with your question to the list Argh! How do I attach something via gmane? Ho

RE: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22 February 2008 18:32, Marc Girod wrote: > I am unable to remove the read right for world (and group) from .netrc. > > ~> export CYGWIN=ntsec > ~> chmod -c o-r .netrc > mode of `.netrc' changed to 0640 (rw-r-) > ~> ls -la .netrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 emagiro Domain Users 54 Feb 21 11:33 .netrc >

chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-22 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I read: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod and: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html, and still do not understand... I am unable to remove the read right for world (and group) from .netrc. ~> export CYGWIN=ntsec ~> chmod -c o-r .netrc mode of `.netrc' changed to