Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/30/17:05:48
Jason Dufair wrote:
> Harig, Mark A. wrote:
>
>>> I tried setting permissions on the above files to 666, which works
>>> but then I get a problem with permissions on /var/empty. I've tried
>>> dozens of combinations of users, groups, and permissions on
>>> /var/empty to no avail. Plus, it seems like a Really Bad Idea to
>>> have those files as 666.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I have permissions for /var/empty/ set to 755, with
>> the owner/group set to SYSTEM.SYSTEM.
>>
>> Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in
>> /etc/passwd, and check to see that its UID is 18.
>>
>> Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in /etc/group, and check to
>> see that its GID is 18.
>>
>> I'm running Windows 2000.
>>
> Oddly, I did set the perms on /var/empty to what you said above, and
> then found that SYSTEM was listed twice in /etc/group (once by default
> on install and once doing the mkgroup -d >> /etc/group. I took one
> out and lo and behold, the service started.
I should be clear in saying that I set the perms and found that the
service still did not run. I edited /etc/group and it ran.
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