Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/05/07:17:41
Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:25:43AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Seth Rubin wrote:
>>> Myself (and Jason) are thinking there's an issue with the cygwin
>>> setup. Maybe I'm being naive, but all this seems is an issue with
>>> chmod and/or copy not being done properly on the postgres.exe file
>>> during installation. I don't see where ACL's or ntsec enters into
>>> it.
>>
>> Here's how:
>> Cygwin setup *doesn't* chmod anything at all. Hence, the file
>> permissions end up being set by normal Windows inheritance. Now,
>> interpret that through ntsec, and you end up with mode 700 - on your
>> particular system. Setup does try to help things to turn out right, by
>> setting the group to Users, on the grounds that most systems will
>> grant Users at least Read&Execute, and most users will be in group
>> Users. That apparently doesn't hold true on your setup, hence your
>> problems.
>
> Is there any way to solve this problem without me adding a postinstall
> script that performs a "chmod +rx" on all *.exe and *.dll files
> installed by this packages?
Yes. PTC for setup.
Please please please don't add this kind of postinstall script.
Max.
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