Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020103153832.023dab78@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:42:27 -0500 To: Tim Michals From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=n tsec Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" In-Reply-To: <63A6C537769693488EF351F5DB9466863D8731@cyglew04.cygnetinc. com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:30 PM 1/3/2002, Tim Michals wrote: >Installed cygwin from the net today, and set in the include file ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What does this mean?? >CYGWIN=ntsec, ran mkpasswd -l -g > passwd and mkgroup -l > group in the /etc >directory. Is ntsec set before any Cygwin process starts (i.e. bash?). Check out the FAQ and user's guide regarding permission problems and ntsec. If that information doesn't help, you'll want to inspect your system configuration via 'cygcheck -s -r -v'. Send it to the list if careful inspection doesn't suggest some problems to you. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/