Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/01/03:56:11
Very many thanks, Igor. Yes, when thinking UNIX the answer is sort of
obvious - it is good to revise old knowledge! Best wishes, Peter
On Aug 30 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, PJ Halls wrote:
>
> > Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some
> > time, we now desire to roll this out into classrooms but have hit a
> > problem.
> >
> > For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed
> > on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling.
> > However, for Cygwin to run it must have write access to /tmp and
> > /var/tmp. Is there any way to 'redirect' these essentials from the
> > Cygwin home space onto, for example, C:/temp (which is the only part of
> > C: to which we permit our students write access)?
>
> "man mount" and/or
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount>.
>
> You may also need to redirect /home (the default /etc/profile may try to
> create a directory for the student there), and maybe others, too.
> Igor
>
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