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Ahh! This CYGWIN variable maybe expains things.
My 1st try with CVS was installing CVSNT 2.0.58d but I kept getting "unable
to rename file error" when trying to commit. I spent ages trying to see what
I had done wrong with permissions etc. Eventually after reading this list
went back to 2.0.58a and all magically everything started working.
I also exstenively use rsync and ages ago had a problem (I forget the
details now) and the fix was to set CYGWIN to be "ntsec"
So now I need CYGWIN to be "ntsec" for "rsync" and "ntea" for "CVSNT".
As rsync is always run from a .bat file if I set CYGWIN to ntea globally and
reset it to ntsec at the beginning of the rsync batch file all should work.
But as I seem to be working at the moment with ntsec and 2.0.58a I am
thinking "if its not broken don't fix it"
Thanks to Tony and all for the good work on CVSNT.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Hartmut Honisch
Sent: 17 November 2004 09:19
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: cvsnt permissions ordering problem?
> > Do you have a Cygwin installation on your server? If so, what's the
> value of > the CYGWIN environment variable?
>
> Yes I do (although thats a bit broken at the moment too). the CYGWIN
> environment variable is "server" (although it was "ntsec tty" a few
> days ago).
The "ntsec" is the reason it didn't work. It makes CVSNT modify file
permissions to store meta information, like the Unix "executable" bit.
However, it frequently causes problems, so the recommended way is the
alternative method ("ntea"), which uses some kind of unused NTFS file
attribute AFAIK.
IMHO CVSNT should *not* use the CYGWIN variable to determine whether to use
ntsec or ntea, mainly because nobody expects CYGWIN to affect CVSNT
behaviour. I had the same problem on my CVSNT server - I didn't even
remember _why_ I had set CYGWIN="ntsec tty", but it took me several days to
figure out the problem.
I've already submitted a feature request to the CVSNT bug tracker regarding
this behaviour, but so far it has been dismissed.
-Hartmut
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