RE: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2

[Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr at coresma dot com>]

I'm not an expert, but starting from version 1.3.13, cygwin handles passwd
and group files slightly differently. For example, before upgrade ls showed
all files I created owned by pavel:Administrators, but after upgrade it
became Administrators:none. Probably setup could handle this situation, by
updating passwd/group files in post-install script.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tue, October 22, 2002 5:56 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:49:16AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >My guess is this problem is related to the ntsec stuff as are many
> >recent posts.  Someone correct me if I am wrong, but to get cygwin to
> >work properly these days I had to do two things:
> >
> >1.  manually modify the /etc/passwd file mkpasswd -du 
> mywindowslogin >>
> >/etc/passwd Where mywindowslogin is the name of the account that you
> >log into windows with.
> >
> >2.  set CYGWIN=nontsec
> 
> There is no reason to do both.  If you are not going to use ntsec then
> CYGWIN=nontsec should be equivalent to 1.3.12.
> 
> I'm amazed at the number of people who have incorrect 
> /etc/passwd files.
> 
> >There are many posts of gcc does not work, patch does not work, bz2
> >does not work, XXX does not work....  I suspect many of 
> these problems
> >are related to not being able to read/write files.
> >
> >Is there some way that this can be fixed?  If you run setup on a new
> >computer right now (or at least two days ago), gcc will not work and
> >all files you create
> >will be owned by a non-existent user.    Perhaps there 
> should be a warning or a
> >FAQ entry, but I would think that the default running of setup should
> >create a cygwin that works.
> 
> I haven't seen anyone say that running setup on a new 
> computer doesn't work.
> It seems to be existing implementations that need tweaking.  
> I don't know
> why.
> 
> cgf
> 
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