On 2011-10-18 14:11, Casual Trash wrote:
I have received a computer with some software already installed and I have to
clean it up.
One of those software is cygwin, I tried to follow the instructions but without
success.
1. I can't locate the cygrunsrv: there is no file with this name and there is
no command in the bash shell with this name!
I have also checked the windows services but I can't find any of the mentioned
services: sshd, cron,
cygserver, inetd, apache,
postgresql, etc
2. I can't delete the cygwin folder because I receive the "Permission Denied"
error, although I have marked all the files as not read only and changed the ownership to
my account.
Can somebody help me out?
Thanks
I'm not sure it applies in your case, but sometimes (and this happened
to me under Windows 7), when you have folders or files, or maybe a whole
disk, that are from an older installation so to speak, it can be hard to
remove such files. I had that happen to me when I took a disk from an
another computer that wasn't formatted and had cygwin on it among other
things. I could not delete the cygwin folder even though I was running
as admin. I solved it by running two commands (and here the old cygwin
folder I wanted to delete was located on e:\cygwin):
First, take ownership of all files (recursively):
$ takeown /F E:\cygwin /R
Then, change permissions recursively:
$ icacls E:\cygwin /grant Administrators:F /t
after that I could remove those files and folders from that secondary
disk. Maybe it doesn't apply for you, I'm not sure about that, and use
with care, but I hope it helps.
- EL
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