Cygwin 1.3.13 turns on "ntsec" by default. If you didn't specify this before in your CYGWIN environment variable, shame on you! ;-) Your best bet is to change the permissions on the files you need to reflect proper ownership and continue to use the new default. Alternatively, you can whimp out and set "nontsec" instead in your CYGWIN environment variable and continue blissfully ignorant. ;-) Of course, there are all sorts of great features of Cygwin available to those on NT-based platforms using "ntsec". But the choice is yours. IMO, it's worth a little pain now to set things up properly w.r.t. "ntsec". I did it years ago and haven't regretted it since.
Methinks this will become an entry in the FAQ. ;-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Robert L. Oelschlaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:16:34 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with cygwin 1.3.13-2 Running cygwin on Win2K. Downloaded cygwin-1.3.13-2 libreadline5-4.3-2 readline-4.3-2 texinfo-4.2-4 and installed them this morning. Tried to add a new tool file to CVS, with the following result: $ cvs commit -m"Checkpoint" gdlutil.py "RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/SecurVision/tools/gdlutil.py,v done cvs commit: WARNING: cannot change mode of file /usr/local/cvsroot/SecurVision/tools/gdlutil.py,v: Invalid argument "ls -altr" of the corresponding $CVSROOT directory showed unexpected user names (e.g., "1840" instead of "Administ"), even on old files that have always belonged to "Adminst". Reverted all of the updates to their previous versions and successfully retried the CVS operation. Reinstalled the newest versions of libreadline5-4.3-2 readline-4.3-2 texinfo-4.2-4 (but NOT of cygwin-1.3.13-2) and repeated the CVS operation successfully. =================================== Robert L. Oelschlaeger Comtrak Technologies, L.L.C. 5657 Campus Parkway, Suite 100 Hazelwood, Missouri 63042 Ph: 314-895-7613 Fax: 314-895-7650 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/