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From:	Adam Dinwoodie <adam AT dinwoodie DOT org>
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:15:34 +0000
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Subject:	Re: No admin setup questions
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On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 02:45, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via
Cygwin wrote:
>
> > Your non-elevated non-admin USER may not have perms to create logs in any of the
> > usual places /var/log/, /tmp/, ./, /
>
> No, I'm the sole user of this installation (that is, all files are "owned" by my user ID, under the Cygwin root)...
>
> The real reason was explained to me in a private response that I am posting below.

Apologies for the private response! Clearly my mail client got the
better of me; I'd intended to reply to the list.
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