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Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:27:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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On Nov 11, 2014, at 5:47 AM, Habermann, David (D) <DAHabermann@dow.com> wrote:
> I also like having everything stored under one main directory (c:\cygwin) for ease of backup
Why would you back up all of c:\cygwin? Most of it is downloaded from the Internet, and this is easily reinstalled from your cached download. (I’m assuming you keep setup.exe and its download tree on a network drive somewhere.)
My starting point for backup on Unix boxes is to exclude everything except /etc, /home and /usr/local. Then maybe add a few choice things under /var. Everything else can be reinstalled.
Since I’m already cherry-picking what to back up, it doesn’t matter to me that /home might be somewhere physically different than /usr.
c:\Users should be part of your backups anyway.
> and ease of identification of all cygwin-involved files for our virus and our application whitelisting systems.
Do you really have executables in $HOME/bin that won’t run unless whitelisted? Does your security software actually ban programs in %HOMEPATH%?
I can see the need to smack the AV with a clue-bat occasionally for some things under /usr, if only to address false positives.
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