X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Antivirus-Bolonia-Mail-From: macanas_ped AT gva DOT es via bolonia X-Antivirus-Bolonia: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(172.17.5.143):SA:0(-3.3/6.0):. Processed in 0.73622 secs Process 25740) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:39:42 +0100 Message-ID: From: "PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE" To: "Sylvain RICHARD" , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m1BAeMFh012304 I have a lot of questions and I cannot see the right place with the answers. So, how can I solve them easily, at a beginner level?. What about not wrong, but non-existing answers ?. Regards. -----Mensaje original----- De: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] En nombre de Sylvain RICHARD Enviado el: viernes, 08 de febrero de 2008 19:25 Para: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Asunto: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:24:59AM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: > > >> Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin >> >> Wonderful, merçi beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this >> could be so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would >> be wise to incorporate somewhere in the uninstall documentation on your >> website, as I suspect all users running winXP and higher experience >> these problems when having chacged file ownership. Thanks again. >> >> For this , include the FAQ in a Wiki is a good option. One also can >> include user tips. >> > > You should have paid closer attention to the discussion. This would be > just the kind of confusion we don't need. Having people update the > "FAQ" with a "tip" that was *already* in the "FAQ" would just cause more > confusion. > > cgf > I have to say that I agree with cgf. I should have looked in the FAQ before, it would have saved some typing. I have had exactly the same issue before and perhaps didn't find the answer at that time. People who come from a UNIX background tend to use chown or chmod but may have already deleted chown.exe and chmod.exe. Perhaps adding the exact cacls invocation in the FAQ would be helpful I do not think that an external wiki would be a good idea, as the developers already have to face numerous questions arising from outdated documentation. The most common source of questions on the cygwin mailing list was at a time SSH (mis-)configuration. Users followed wrong directions and did not run ssh-host-config but tried to setup everything by hand. And when MS reduced the privileges of the SYSTEM account for XP, everything broke. Best regards Sylvain RICHARD -- 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/ -- 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/