On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > On 1 Apr, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Eh? :-)
> > > You must mean 'chown -R --from="$USER" ...' :-) > > > > Hmm, sounds better still. :-) > > D'oh! Not possible: there's no -xdev option on chown, so that would > do a whole lot more chown-ing than intended, as it reached across the > network, or at least into other mount points under "/" ... Ah, quite true. Any discussion of adding such an option should probably be done on the coreutils mailing lists, as this would be likely useful not only for Cygwin. > While just checking that, I also discovered that "man chown" now > produces no output. Other man entries seem fine. > > $ cygcheck -s | grep "^cygwin " > cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 67 > cygwin 1.5.13-1 FWIW, a better way to produce the above line is "cygcheck -cd cygwin". > $ man chown | cat -tvu > Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf Heh? First off, why would you need to pipe this to "cat" (aside from the fact that "-u" is ignored, and "-v" is redundant with "-t")? Secondly, you don't get the above message with other man pages, do you? > $ gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chown.1.gz | nroff -man | head > CHOWN(1) User Commands CHOWN(1) > [snip] In addition to what Eric mentioned, it would also be nice to see your mount table, so attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" would be a good idea here... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/