perl test fails

Thu Aug 28 10:09:00 GMT 2003

Thank you Igor. However, I've now read the entry on smbntsec and it 
doesn't seem relevant. (Was a useful exercise in itself, since I didn't 
know about the CYGWIN env var either ;)) I don't have a problem on the 
Linux box, only on the NT one. And it doesn't matter whether I'm running 
the script from the networked drive or from the local hard drive, I only 
get the error under Cygwin.
So far it keeps looking to me as though Cygwin is broken.
Rob
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On 2003年8月27日, Rob Clack wrote:
>>>>Hmmm, don't see how it can have anything to do with the mapping of a
>>networked drive, since the problem started on the NT4 box, at which time
>>the scriptlet was located in /cygdrive/e/cygwin/rnc/try.
>>>>Since I wanted to demonstrate that it worked on the Linux box (having
>>tripped over that one originally!) each time I hacked one copy of the
>>script I then had to move to the other machine and duplicate the changes
>>I'd just made. Clearly this was error-prone, so it made sense to just
>>use the copy on the Linux box. On the NT4 it's accessible as
>>/cygdrive/i/rnc/try.
>>> Rob,
>> Well, it's usually a good idea to keep as many variables fixed as
> possible. By sharing the script, you've unknowingly introduced another
> variable (that of SMB shares). I'd suggest moving the script back to a
> local directory, and simply copying it to the shared drive when you want
> to try it on Linux. That way you can reliably reproduce the problem on
> the local drive.
>>>>And no, I've never heard of smbntsec. What's it mean/do?
>>> See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>. It's on by
> default. FYI, it may require very careful hand-maintenance of /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group (in fact, I've ended up turning it off because the
> maintenance effort wasn't worth it for me). You might wish to add
> "nosmbntsec" to your CYGWIN variable.
> 	Igor
>>>>Regards
>>Rob
>>>>Larry Hall wrote:
>>>>>At 09:36 AM 8/26/2003, Rob Clack you wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>Gerrit
>>>>>>>>I've been away for a week, hence the delayed response.
>>>>>>>>Thanks for this and clearly my scriptlet was broken. I've now tried both alternatives as suggested below. Both work perfectly under Linux. Neither works under NT4.
>>>>>>>>Linux output:
>>>>>>>>script is executable
>>>>>>>>NT4 output:
>>>>>>>>I damn well am!
>>>>>>>>To eliminate error further, I'm now running just one copy of the script, since the disk I use on my Linux box is mapped to the i: drive on the NT4 box.
>>>>>>>>>>>>Are you suggesting that you're using a mapped drive from your Linux box?
>>>That may be the problem. Do you have 'smbntsec' set in your CYGWIN
>>>environment variable?
>>>>>>>>>>>>Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com
>>>RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>>>838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>>>Holliston, MA 01746
>>
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