Re: 'cp' utility bug when dest-name.exe file exist.

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew B. Smith
Ill throw in my two cents. I don't want to overwrite an existing file accidentally. Ie if I ls foo and that writes to foo.exe I would be frustrated. This hasn't happened to me yet so it might not be to big of a problem. It seems a bit odd that the behavior would change if there is a file in

Ignored Permissions

2010-04-29 Thread Matthew B. Smith
If I set the permissions of a file to be read only I can still delete it, or modify it w/out warning. eg. touch test.txt chmod 444 test.txt echo what test.txt In ubuntu I get an error, in cygwin it just modifies the file. This is an administrator acct if that affects the issue. I am using

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Matthew B. Smith
I'm pretty sure you cannot use a window. I think matlab has another cmd line argument such as -batch to run w/out windows? mbs On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 15:04 -0300, Geraldo Veiga wrote: I have Cygwin installed in a Vista/64 system with sshd enabled. I would like to login remotely via ssh and

nohup, non-cygwin processes

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew B. Smith
Hello I am writing about a problem probably not due to cygwin, but I think it used to work with 1.5. I want to start a long running process with nohup and have it continue to run even though I log out of the computer. It seems no matter how I start the process I get a SYGTERM signal when I