Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/10/15:20:52
I'm helping other members of my workgroup setup Cygwin on their winXP
SP1 laptops (all pretty much like mine) to run an automated build
process (which depends on ssh-agent). At least one person (I'll call
him "Steve" :-) reports the following problems (but another person
currently on vacation may also have this problem), which I haven't yet
examined in detail (but will do tomorrow):
* default permissions are 600. Steve starts up a bash login shell (and
~/.bash_profile starts ssh-agent), then runs an ant script that
checks out files from CVS. The permissions on all created files are
600. Among the created files are some JARs: when the process
subsequently tries to
> java -jar foo.jar
(in the same directory as the jar) it gets the error
> cannot access foo.jar
* user cannot chmod files. When Steve tries to
> chmod 755 foo.jar
from his shell, the command runs without error, but
> ls -al foo.jar
shows no change in permissions (still 600).
Steve has a fair amount of Unix experience, but very little Cygwin
experience, and has a fresh (mid-Sep 05) install of Cygwin. I run the
same ant script and don't have this problem, but I've been running
Cygwin lots longer.
I'm wondering, what might cause this problem? Are there things I
should look for, or should do, when I check Steve's cygwin? Apologies
if this is a FAQ, but I didn't see anything closely related in
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html
Please feel free to reply directly to me as well as the group, and
TIA.
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