Re: unknown owner 4294967295 should be Adminstrators

2011-01-02 Thread Ken Jackson
How to chown all files from 4294967295:18 to 544:18 or, at least, recognize the files to be owned by "Administrators". chown -R ... would not work because it will chown all files. Also the files not owned by 4294967295. chown -vR --from=4294967295:18 Adminstrators:SYSTEM ... chown: invalid use

Re: File output Question

2011-01-02 Thread ERIC HO
Looking at this closer, I've found the file contains hex '00' between characters. In vim, it displays ^@ for hex '00'. So it looks unreadable. But when I use cat or tail commands, it strips off hex '00' and looks readable. For example. in vim, it displays: p...@r^@o...@d^@u...@c^@t^@: With cat

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

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/2/2011 7:08 PM, aputerguy wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 1/2/2011 9:09 AM, aputerguy wrote: Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as the file owner in cygwin so that rsyn

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

2011-01-02 Thread aputerguy
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 1/2/2011 9:09 AM, aputerguy wrote: >> Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as the file owner in cygwin so that rsync transfer

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

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/2/2011 9:09 AM, aputerguy wrote: Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as the file owner in cygwin so that rsync transfers it over properly. Presumably this would mean adding it to m

Re: USB flash drive not showing up in Cygwin under Windows 7

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/2/2011 12:32 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: My USB thumb drive does not show up in /cygdrive/ (or seemingly anywhere else for that matter). It does of course show up in the regular Windows 7 GUI in the "Computer" folder. This happens even if I open the cygwin window using "Runas Administrat

Re: X server segfault problem

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/1/2011 8:11 PM, chm wrote: 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 abor

unknown owner 4294967295 should be Adminstrators

2011-01-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
First I want to wish you a happy new year :-) I've a owner-problem with my Windows XP. Most of the files which should be owned by "Administrators" are owned by 4294967295, an unknown user. $ cat /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: N

Re: Possible bug in setup.exe (checking for pre-requisites)

2011-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/01/2011 15:30, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I'm re-installing Cygwin from scratch, using the latest setup.exe on a > Windows 7 64-bit system > > I had downloaded and installed gcc4, then discovered I had failed to > download the corresponding g++ package. I ran "setup -M" and selected > gcc4-g

Possible bug in setup.exe (checking for pre-requisites)

2011-01-02 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I'm re-installing Cygwin from scratch, using the latest setup.exe on a Windows 7 64-bit system I had downloaded and installed gcc4, then discovered I had failed to download the corresponding g++ package. I ran "setup -M" and selected gcc4-g++. When setup tried to check for dependencies, it got i

cygwin_conv_path returns wrong device names?

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Cran
I need to convert unix device nodes such as /dev/sda to Windows device names within an application. cygpath returns devices such as: > cygpath -w /dev/sda \\.\PhysicalDrive0 That can be opened by both open(2) and CreateFile since it resides in the global namespace, but cygwin_conv_path returns \D

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

2011-01-02 Thread aputerguy
Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: >> If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up >> as >> the file owner in cygwin so that rsync transfers it over properly. >> Presumably this would mean adding it to my /etc/passwd file thou

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

2011-01-02 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: > If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as > the file owner in cygwin so that rsync transfers it over properly. > Presumably this would mean adding it to my /etc/passwd file though I'm not > sure what would be the

Re: Cygwin 1.7.7 issues

2011-01-02 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Karl, On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Karl Stone Seigler wrote: > When I try to run Cygwin Bash Shell, it pulls up an error screen that > says "The procedure entry point cygwin_create_path cannot be located > in the dynamic link library in cygwin1.dll". What should I do to find > it? Where ca

USB flash drive not showing up in Cygwin under Windows 7

2011-01-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
My USB thumb drive does not show up in /cygdrive/ (or seemingly anywhere else for that matter). It does of course show up in the regular Windows 7 GUI in the "Computer" folder. This happens even if I open the cygwin window using "Runas Administrator" I am running Cygwin 1.7. Am I missing somethi

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

2011-01-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 January 2011 16:51, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 01/01/2011 09:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> Why not simply make it better or at least make it something >>> that nobody could mistake for simply a machine is not busy? >> >> Because it's not that simple. Removing /proc/loadavg would be nice, >> but