wget, ssh, ... and cygwin 1.7 issues

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 26 00:28, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> Corinnia:
> I finally got cygwin 1.7 swapped-in to try to reproduce my problem.   
> Good news, after a few hours of pinging a website, ZERO ERRORS for now.   
> Since it is an intermittent error, I'll let it run at 6 seconds interval  
> until tomorrow.
>
> Now some issues raised with 1.7 .................
> $ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/group
> -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 UNKNOWN mkpasswd 74 Feb 25 23:42 /etc/group
> -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 UNKNOWN mkpasswd 81 Jan 11 19:06 /etc/passwd

This looks like your passwd and group files are broken.

> For BOTH files having write access by everyone, any attemps to edit the  
> files with "vim" will result on a permament block on OPEN.  No EPERM  
> error code.  Now I did NOT upgrade anything elso but just replacing  
> cygwin1.dll file.  I was able to append a new-line to the group file.   
> When editing group file, "vim group" became "vim -u NONE group" is  
> procps output.

Never saw that before and works normal for me.  procps shows `vim group'.
Looks like some profile's influence.


Corinna

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