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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZhBvnUIxgcTF1PNSo1OEDLeZ05TxufkMtR6YEUjLUb8W3HGinq8/l9 Message-ID: <3E9B78D3.9030303@rfk.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:13:23 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall@rfk.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Williams CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod again References: <20030415023356.GA48685509@hpn5170x> <3E9B752B.6080502@rfk.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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! :) That's polite. That's a size we have to live with here. >> 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... OK, that's the problem then. I guess you didn't read the FAQ entry: Why doesn't chmod work? chmod does nothing on FAT drives unless you're running some version of NT and you're willing to incur the overhead of a large file in your root (enabled by setting 'ntea' in your CYGWIN environment variable). This has been a popular issue today. Yours is the second email message I've pointed to this FAQ entry in the last hour! We'll be filling the email archives with repeats fast. ;-) -- 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/