From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11857 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2014 16:31:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11782 invoked by uid 89); 12 Nov 2014 16:31:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:31:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 26325 invoked by uid 13447); 12 Nov 2014 16:31:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([68.35.121.157]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Nov 2014 16:31:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:31:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <0B8D23F7-0258-472D-BF38-860402FD3CDC@etr-usa.com> <20141111101821.GO2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <20141111111437.GB28012@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00270.txt.bz2 On Nov 11, 2014, at 5:47 AM, Habermann, David (D) wro= te: > I also like having everything stored under one main directory (c:\cygwin)= for ease of backup Why would you back up all of c:\cygwin? Most of it is downloaded from the = Internet, and this is easily reinstalled from your cached download. (I=92m= assuming you keep setup.exe and its download tree on a network drive somew= here.) My starting point for backup on Unix boxes is to exclude everything except = /etc, /home and /usr/local. Then maybe add a few choice things under /var.= Everything else can be reinstalled. Since I=92m already cherry-picking what to back up, it doesn=92t matter to = me that /home might be somewhere physically different than /usr. c:\Users should be part of your backups anyway. > and ease of identification of all cygwin-involved files for our virus and= our application whitelisting systems. Do you really have executables in $HOME/bin that won=92t run unless whiteli= sted? Does your security software actually ban programs in %HOMEPATH%? I can see the need to smack the AV with a clue-bat occasionally for some th= ings under /usr, if only to address false positives. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple