Tom,
Please keep your replies on-list.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:07:28PM +0100, Tom Halser wrote:
> :-)))
>
> yep, that helped.
Good.
> Still, I don't remember that I did that on the other
> machines...spooky! The only other thing I did: I used a different
> account than the build-in Administator that had also administrator
> rights to install cygwin with setup.exe.
Did you "Install For" "All Users" or "Just Me"?
> Anyway. So if I get you right, its all cygwin's setup.exe fault, isn't
> it?
Yup. There is work under way to make Cygwin's setup.exe honor ntsec,
etc. which should hopefully prevent this problem.
> An off-topic question on that:
> shouldn't there be a way to install, reinstall, remove packages via
> commandline?
Yes, there has been some work to implement this. Unfortunately, more
needs to be done.
> I mean, some kind of dpkg and aptitude like it exists on Debian??
The above would be great.
> That would make updating serveral machines on a network much easier!
Agreed.
> What's your opinion about that?
I agree will all of the above, but I have no time to help because I'm
maxed out already. Unfortunately, one has to choose their battles.
Would you like to help? If so, then please subscribe to
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com jump on in.
> Ahmmm. I promise this was my lasy reply off-list, but I thought it was
> kind of irrelevant to other postgresql-users.
Maybe. My hope is if I answer publically, then I may prevent even one
private email. I know that I'm foolish to hope for such a thing, but
one has to try...
> Mea culpa.
No problem, but please keep your replies on-list.
> Thanks for all
You are welcome.
Jason
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