RE: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Michel LaBarre
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Greg Freemyer > Sent: December-07-16 5:08 PM > To: brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: permission question > > If I'm going t

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > If I'm going to relegate rsync to the trash bin due to it not > supporting Windows permissions well enough to be useful, I've got > other Windows recursive copy tools I use that don't preserve > permissions either. I still use rsync in cygwin

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
If I'm going to relegate rsync to the trash bin due to it not supporting Windows permissions well enough to be useful, I've got other Windows recursive copy tools I use that don't preserve permissions either. I can't tell you how much I love Windows security permissions. :( In the mean time I ha

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-12-07 13:12, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> I really like cygwin and have used it for a decade plus. Only in the >> last year or 18-months have I noticed significant permission issues >> that slow down my workflow. >> >> Copying these folders/files from one drive to another is a task I'd >> lik

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
> I really like cygwin and have used it for a decade plus. Only in the > last year or 18-months have I noticed significant permission issues > that slow down my workflow. > > Copying these folders/files from one drive to another is a task I'd > like to accomplish, but even more importantly I'd lik

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> I'm tempted to just do a "chmod 755 -R .", but I've just had too many >> windows permission issues in the last year to start trying things >> without guidance. > > That would probably make things worse. I believe that Windows > permiss

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7 December 2016 at 13:22, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Greg Freemyer > wrote: >> I have a USB drive with 100,000's of thousands of files I put on it >> from one PC. I've built that dataset up over a couple years. >> >> I moved the USB drive to a different PC and I'

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > I have a USB drive with 100,000's of thousands of files I put on it > from one PC. I've built that dataset up over a couple years. > > I moved the USB drive to a different PC and I'm trying to rsync it to > another drive. > > 99.9% of the da

RE: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Gluszczak, Glenn
in-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Greg Freemyer Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 10:48 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: permission question I have a USB drive with 100,000's of thousands of files I put on it from one PC. I've built that dataset up over a couple years. I moved the USB drive

permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
I have a USB drive with 100,000's of thousands of files I put on it from one PC. I've built that dataset up over a couple years. I moved the USB drive to a different PC and I'm trying to rsync it to another drive. 99.9% of the data seems to have made its way from one drive to the other. But I g

Re: file permission question

2006-05-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
chen li wrote: Dear all, I am new to Cygwin. When I try to execute a file call example.exe I get such message: bash: ./first.exe: Permission denied so I use chmod a+rx to change the file permisssion and here is the result: -rwxrwxrwx 1 chen41 mkgroup-l-d 11241 May 6 18:40 first.exe. But wh

file permission question

2006-05-07 Thread chen li
Dear all, I am new to Cygwin. When I try to execute a file call example.exe I get such message: bash: ./first.exe: Permission denied so I use chmod a+rx to change the file permisssion and here is the result: -rwxrwxrwx 1 chen41 mkgroup-l-d 11241 May 6 18:40 first.exe. But when I type ./first