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Robert Pendell | 1 Jul 2008 04:12

Re: gulus.USherbrooke.ca dropped from the mirror list


Simon Valiquette wrote:
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| Hello,
|
|   I am sending this here, as It seems that there is not any better
| mailing list for problems related to mirrors.
|
|   One Cygwin user warned me that when using our mirror, he got a
| warning telling him that our mirror is not anymore on the Cygwin
| official mirror list.
|
|   Taken from this page (http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) I read
| the following:
|
| "If you are a mirror site administrator and your site was previously
| listed but has dropped off that means that the automatic software has
| determined that you are not up-to-date. Your site will be re-added
| automatically when you become current. There is no need to contact
| anyone about this."
|
|
|   According to my logs, my Cygwin mirror never has been out of date
| (I checked up to the 21st of June) and as been updated since twice a
| day without any problems.  So can someone please tell me why my mirror
| was dropped, and why It wasn't readded automatically?
|
|   By the way, my mirror is still listed on the official mirror page.
|
|   Also, It would be very useful for all mirror if this script would
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starlight | 1 Jul 2008 08:07
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setting default group and/or disabling CYGWIN ACL behavior

Constantly have to wrestle with CYGWIN imposed ACLs on files I 
create.  It's bothersome to constantly issue 'cacls /t' and 
'icacls * /reset /t' commands to strip out the CYGWIN overrides 
after receiving complaints from others who can't access the 
files.  No one is in the Administrators group.

The best solution would be to just turn it off (!) so that 
normal Windows ACL inheritance works the way it does outside of 
CYGWIN.

A possible work-around if the above ideal solution is 
unavailable would be to have some way to change the group id to 
something other than "None".  Can't find a 'newgrp' command and 
the '/etc/passwd' file and 'bash' login syntax clearly do not 
support this.  Don't see any way to set the process default 
group in Windows without running a domain controller.

I searched on this quite a bit before asking the list.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Corinna Vinschen | 1 Jul 2008 10:13
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Re: setting default group and/or disabling CYGWIN ACL behavior

On Jul  1 02:07, starlight <at> binnacle.cx wrote:
> Constantly have to wrestle with CYGWIN imposed ACLs on files I 
> create.  It's bothersome to constantly issue 'cacls /t' and 
> 'icacls * /reset /t' commands to strip out the CYGWIN overrides 
> after receiving complaints from others who can't access the 
> files.  No one is in the Administrators group.

chmod?  setfacl?  umask?

> The best solution would be to just turn it off (!) so that 
> normal Windows ACL inheritance works the way it does outside of 
> CYGWIN.
> 
> A possible work-around if the above ideal solution is 
> unavailable would be to have some way to change the group id to 
> something other than "None".

Everybody is in the None group if you don't have a DC.  So I
don't see the problem if you use a umask matching your needs.

>   Can't find a 'newgrp' command and 
> the '/etc/passwd' file and 'bash' login syntax clearly do not 
> support this.

bash has nothing to do with that, of course.  As for /etc/passwd,
you didn't read the user's guide, apparently:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files

>   Don't see any way to set the process default 
> group in Windows without running a domain controller.
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Bosko Ivanisevic | 1 Jul 2008 11:27
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Perl 5.10.0-4 and git-svn (git 1.5.6-1) problem

Recently I've updated my cygwin installation. Setup has installed Perl 
5.10.0-4. After that git-svn stopped working. Installed version of git 
is 1.5.6-1. This is the error message:

Can't locate Git.pm in  <at> INC ( <at> INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 .) at /usr/bin/git-svn line 45.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/git-svn line 45.

Also it looks like subversion-perl is not updated to new Perl version. 
Is there any way to fix this with current version of Perl? If not is 
there any way I can revert Perl to previous version I had (5.8)? Setup 
application only offers me Perl 5.10.0-3 which also breaks git-svn.

Bosko
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Simon Valiquette | 1 Jul 2008 11:44
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Re: gulus.USherbrooke.ca dropped from the mirror list

Christopher Faylor un jour écrivit:
 >>
 >>One Cygwin user warned me that when using our mirror, he got a warning
 >>telling him that our mirror is not anymore on the Cygwin official
 >>mirror list.
 >>
 >
 > The fact that you are listed on the official mirror page means that your
 > mirror is an official mirror.  You are also listed in setup.exe.  I just
 > checked.

   Ok, so I suppose that the problem that was reported to me has been 
resolved on the Cygwin side in the last 2 days.

 >>Also, It would be very useful for all mirror if this script would
 >>automatically email the faulty mirror sysadmin each time a problem is
 >>detected.  That would helps a lot to detect and fix problems soon after
 >>they happens.
 >>
 >
 > Oddly enough, that isn't the email address listed for this mirror in our
 > database.

   Whatever happened, thank you for fixing It.

 > That's one reason why we don't contact sites automatically.
 > I'm not interested in seeing bounce email.
 > The other reason is that it would be close to spam to be sending out
 > notices when mirrors drop off for a while.
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Dave Korn | 1 Jul 2008 12:02
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RE: gulus.USherbrooke.ca dropped from the mirror list

Simon Valiquette wrote on 01 July 2008 10:44:

> Christopher Faylor un jour écrivit:
>  >>
>  >>One Cygwin user warned me that when using our mirror, he got a warning
>  >>telling him that our mirror is not anymore on the Cygwin official
>  >>mirror list.
>  >>
>  >
>  > The fact that you are listed on the official mirror page means that
>  your > mirror is an official mirror.  You are also listed in setup.exe. 
>  I just > checked.
> 
>    Ok, so I suppose that the problem that was reported to me has been
> resolved on the Cygwin side in the last 2 days.

  Or at your user's end.  Do you think you could get a hold of their
/etc/setup/mirrors-lst file?  That would show us what their setup.exe
/thought/ was in the mirrors list last time they ran it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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radski | 1 Jul 2008 14:58
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CRON can't cd to HOME


Hello, 
I'm trying to CRON, but I'm receiving error in the windows log saying it
"can't cd to HOME"; yet cron_diagnose.sh completes without any errors. There
doesn't seem to be much reference to this error out there, I've tried moving
home from outside of the cygwin directory to inside and changed permissions
but that does not seem to help.

Cron service runs as Local System and I'm not sure where it takes the home
setting from ? changeing it in passwd file doesn't seem to make any
difference.
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Pierre A. Humblet | 1 Jul 2008 15:33
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Re: CRON can't cd to HOME

HOME can be specified in the crontab, else it is taken from /etc/passwd

You may have access issues if HOME is on a network drive.
If so, consider creating a different HOME on a local disk, or running cron as yourself.

Pierre

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "radski" <radomil <at> hotmail.com>
To: <cygwin <at> cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: CRON can't cd to HOME

|
| Hello,
| I'm trying to CRON, but I'm receiving error in the windows log saying it
| "can't cd to HOME"; yet cron_diagnose.sh completes without any errors. There
| doesn't seem to be much reference to this error out there, I've tried moving
| home from outside of the cygwin directory to inside and changed permissions
| but that does not seem to help.
|
| Cron service runs as Local System and I'm not sure where it takes the home
| setting from ? changeing it in passwd file doesn't seem to make any
| difference.
| -- 
| View this message in context: 
http://www.nabble.com/CRON-can%27t-cd-to-HOME-tp18214359p18214359.html
| Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
|
|
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Christopher Faylor | 1 Jul 2008 17:10
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Re: gulus.USherbrooke.ca dropped from the mirror list

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:02:12AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Simon Valiquette wrote on 01 July 2008 10:44:
>>Christopher Faylor un jour ?crivit:
>>>>
>>>>One Cygwin user warned me that when using our mirror, he got a warning
>>>>telling him that our mirror is not anymore on the Cygwin official
>>>>mirror list.
>>>>
>>>
>>>The fact that you are listed on the official mirror page means that
>>your > mirror is an official mirror.  You are also listed in setup.exe.
>>I just > checked.
>>
>>Ok, so I suppose that the problem that was reported to me has been
>>resolved on the Cygwin side in the last 2 days.
>
>Or at your user's end.  Do you think you could get a hold of their
>/etc/setup/mirrors-lst file?  That would show us what their setup.exe
>/thought/ was in the mirrors list last time they ran it.

I'd prefer to just mark this discussion as closed.  It's pretty clear
that there was a cockpit error here since the OP reported that they were
on the mirrors list at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html.  You can't be on
that list and not be on the list that setup.exe uses.

cgf
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Dave Korn | 1 Jul 2008 17:19
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RE: gulus.USherbrooke.ca dropped from the mirror list

Christopher Faylor wrote on 01 July 2008 16:11:

> I'd prefer to just mark this discussion as closed.  It's pretty clear
> that there was a cockpit error here since the OP reported that they were
> on the mirrors list at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html.  You can't be on
> that list and not be on the list that setup.exe uses.

  Yeh, but any cockpit error was not OP's but OP's end-user.  I was hoping
to help OP diagnose OP's user's problem.  (It could even conceivably be a
setup.exe bug .... )

    cheers,
      DaveK
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