Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:14:35 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod again Message-ID: <20030415031435.GC8800@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030415023356.GA48685509@hpn5170x> <3E9B752B.6080502@rfk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:06:37PM +1000, John Williams wrote: >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: >>John Williams wrote: >>>Also to Igor, the output from cygcheck -svr is huge, should I attach >>>all of it, or is there a particular relevant snip? >>> >>How huge is "huge"? The output from my system is 28K. > >Yes sounds about right - I call 28K huge enough to ask first before >posting it verbatim to a newsgroup! :) Despite being asked and the words at http://cygwin.com/bugs.html ? >>You're sure you're working on an NTFS partition and that you set >>ntsec in your CYGWIN environment variable *before* starting any >>Cygwin process (including services)? > >I'm doing this on a fat32 partition... That explains it. Try setting CYGWIN=ntea before changing permissions. cgf -- 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/