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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, NGUYEN wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if it's the good mailing list.
> So, I want to use MPICH2 on my Cygwin. I compile it without problems,
> but when I must run mpd, it ask me to have a config file .mpd.conf with
> the attribute RW only for user. So, I do: "chmod 600 .mpd.conf " but it
> doesn't change the status of the file. I think that it is because of
> Windows System file (I'm under fat32). then mpd doesn't want to run
> without this configuration file.
> Can you help plz?
>
> Thank you,
> PS: I believe this subject has been discuss here but I didn't find it....
Yes, this subject has indeed been discussed before. In fact, it's a FAQ:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.chmod>.
The short of it is: you're out of luck with FAT32. Your options are
changing the filesystem or changing the code to skip the check.
HTH,
Igor
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