Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-04 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 05:58:03PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 Cygwin-specific expe

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 05:58:03PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Christopher Faylor schrieb: >>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 >>> Cygwin-specific expertise,

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my opinion, are like this one, that seem t

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall > >> Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 > > > >>Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall >> Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 > >>Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my >>opinion, are like this one, that seem to come down to

RE: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall > Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 > Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my > opinion, are like this one, that seem to come down to a broken mirror: > our mirror rsyncing to it and breaking, and

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
On 3 Sep, luke replied to Christopher when he wrote: > > However, since you raise the issue of md5sums, it's hard to see how > > your mirror could be bad and not have setup.exe complain about an > > incorrect md5. > > Righto. I'll write a script to check our mirror, independent of >

Re: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:26 PM 9/2/2004, you wrote: >On 2 Sep, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 09:41 PM 9/2/2004, you wrote: >> >They also say it's common for it to be very, very hard to remove >> >C:\cygwin - unable to remove it, unable to take ownership, on occasion >> >having to boot into safe mode to get rid of it (

Re: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
On 2 Sep, Larry Hall wrote: > At 09:41 PM 9/2/2004, you wrote: > >They also say it's common for it to be very, very hard to remove > >C:\cygwin - unable to remove it, unable to take ownership, on occasion > >having to boot into safe mode to get rid of it (on the way to trying a > >fresh Cygwi

Re: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:41 PM 9/2/2004, you wrote: >They also say it's common for it to be very, very hard to remove >C:\cygwin - unable to remove it, unable to take ownership, on occasion >having to boot into safe mode to get rid of it (on the way to trying a >fresh Cygwin install, you see). Perhaps you're runnin

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
On 2 Sep, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:41:27AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >SysAdmin here are coming to object to Cygwin - they say they get only > >slightly fewer support requests for Cygwin than they do for Exchange. > >*Usually* they can solve the problem. T

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:50:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >However, since you raise the issue of md5sums, it's hard to see how >your mirror could be bad and not have setup.exe complain about an >incorrect md5. Nevermind. I see that's sort of what you were already complaining about in an

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:41:27AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >SysAdmin here are coming to object to Cygwin - they say they get only >slightly fewer support requests for Cygwin than they do for Exchange. >*Usually* they can solve the problem. They only call me in for hairier >problems (like t

How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

2004-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
Is there a scriptable way (on the Unix host, or under a working Cygwin install), for us to detect a faulty mirror? The mirrors seem to cause problems very regularly. This is about the 3rd one we've tried. SysAdmin here are coming to object to Cygwin - they say they get only slightly fewer supp